LOOMING IN AUSTRALIA
DISPUTE OVEfI WEEKLY HOURt
BWJeE B.LAMED FOB NOT STEPPING IN.
(Unil«d Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received Ist May, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
Mr. Myhill, secretary of the Metal Trades Employers' Association, announced that he had been officially informed by Mr. Pinkerton, district teeretary of the federated Engine Driven j and Firemen's Association, thtt the Federal Executives of the union had decidod to instruct its member! to work a forty-eight hours' week in. the terms of the Federal Award. Mr. Atkins, Stoto secretary of the association, said that it should not be inferred from this decision that the «lsociation was not in sympathy with the forty-four hour week proposal. Ac » matter of. fact, an application was now before ihj>, Federal Arbitration Court for a variation of the association's; award to provide for a forty-four hour week. Mr. J. Garden, commenting on the refusal of Mr. Bruce to convene a conference to discuss the forty-four hour. week issue, said that if an upheaval occurred Mr. Bruce would have to shoulder the responsibility. "It cannot bo said that he was not given an opportunity to avert an industrial crisis.'' If the employers in the metal trades cany out their threat, approximately 40,000 workers will be out in the industry.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 1 May 1926, Page 7
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