HOURS PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 4

HOURS PROBLEM.

THE SYDNEY STRIKE. . i

(»01£ ?ra ow * COWrfSPOHDMI.) SYDNEY, 'June- 10. , Both parties to the prolonged 44 r hour week strike seem to be satisfied with the result,-, now that it has beer, settled, but precisely who won no ono appears to know. All that the community knows is that it lost, as it usually does in such cases. It always r>as to foot the bill. Whether the men, for instance, are satisfied to have gamed the right.to lose four hours' pay a waak is doubtful' but this is precisely what they have gained. Whether, on tho obh'er hand,, jthe employers, are satisfied to know'. that they have.: given their rivals across' the. Victorian border t';o ■advantage of f pur, hours more .'work a week for their employees, is also doubtfiil'.'. .■'-'- . . • .'.i •• .

.'Whether again.-the third party.-the general public—are satisfied to bqar the extra burden of cost which .the settlement will inevitably impose upon them by reason of. the unequal competition now .between Victoria and New South Wale's .employers, no one knows and, of .course,"no one oares. Nothing short of. an earthquake, or the abolition of racing, th£. closing down of the stadium or the picture shows, would upset the' equilibrium.of the community of Syd-; ney. 4 • !