44-HOURS STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 208, 29 May 1926, Page 9

44-HOURS STRIKE

END IN SIGHT TRADES HALL DISPUTES COMMITTEES OFFER ACCEPTED BY METAL TRADES EMPLOYERS By Telfguath.—Press Association, copyright. (Rec. May 28, 10.40 p.m.) Sydney, Mai’ 28. A meeting of the Metal Trades Employers’ Association decided to accept the Trades Hall Disputes Committee’s offer for a settlement of the dispute, thus ending the forty-four hours strike, which has rendered idle thirty thousand employees. A mass meeting of men will be held on Saturday to ratify the committee s action. Many owners were against accepting the men’s offer, but after a heated discussion it was accepted by a narrow majority.—Press Assn. [The offer submitted by the Disputes Committee of the Trades Hall was that the employees, without prejudice.to the employers’ privileges under Federal awards, should resume on the terms of a 44-hour week, to be worked in either five or six days, as required by the employer, and be paid for on the time worked only, the Disputes Committee to give an undertaking that no demand for increased wages be made until the newly-constituted Federal Court deals with the matter; restrictions on overtime and shift work to be removed, and overtime and shifts to be worked as required by the employer.]