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THOUSANDS IDLE.

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

Metal Trades And Engineering Industries.

BETTER WAGES CLAIM.

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY', this day. Serious dislocation of the metal trades and engineering industries has occurred as the result of a strike of engine-drivers and firemen in ten bur enprineeriiipr workshops, and as a result 4000 are now idle

A mass meeting of ironworkers represent!.,?: 1500 men in the shops concerned decided on Saturday to strike in sympathy with the drivers and firemen.

Sonie- of the firms involved are Mo, s Dock, the Cockntoo Dockyards, the Uyde Engineering Company. Hadfleld's, Lnnited, and Babcock and VVilcox Limited. '

lh« dispute hinges on the drivers' and firemen's claims for better wa-es and conditions and a feeling that the employers are obstructing the men's olijj-ctive, the obtaining of a new award embodying better pay. The strikers comprise tho key men who drive cranes and njipi-a tc steam and generating plants for electricity. c

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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9

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THOUSANDS IDLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9

THOUSANDS IDLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9

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