DEADLOCK IN AUSTRALIA
UNIONS SEEK SUPPORT
PROM STATE GOVERNMENT.
(United Pres3 Association.—Copyright.) (Received 7th May; 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The deadlock in the strike over th« forty-four hour week continues. Representatives of the unions are endeavouring to enlist the whole-hearted support of the State Government. It is understood that the Government has been asked to cancel any contracts it had with firms which had dismissed their employees for failing to observe awardi and that the Cabinet consented to appoint a sub-committee to inquire into this suggestion. The Amalgamated Engineering Union asked the Government to take over all shops in which work for the Government is being done and conduct them on a forty-four hour week basis. Cabinet is disinclined to consider this seriously. Unionists are anxious that the Government should demonstrate in a practical manner the sympathy which it has expressed 'towards the strikers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 108, 7 May 1926, Page 7
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