CRISIS AT CANBERRA
CARPENTERS' WORKING WEEK
General stoppage threatened.
(Received 21st August, 10.30 aJt.^ SYI)NEY, This Day. A strike occurred among th« carpenters 'at Canberra, the hew Federal capital, owing to the men employed on on* of the hotels being compelled to work . forty-eight hours- a week; Six huHdi red carpenters are out. * The Chief Commissioner informed tile men that they would be paid off unleM they resumed work, with- the result that several hundred left the works. | The 1 general secretary of all the union* at Canberra subsequently stated that unleisn the carpenters were reinstated, and granted the forty-four-honr week, the members of all the other unions employed at the Federal capital would ba called out..
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 7
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CRISIS AT CANBERRA
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 7
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