THE TIMBER TROUBLE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1929, Page 11

THE TIMBER TROUBLE

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MELBOURNE, 29th January. An urgent meeting of tho Trades Union Council was held to-day, consequent on an employers' ultimatum automatically dismissing all employees who disobeyed the .award. Advice was received from Adelaide and Sydney that the employers were taking the offensive, and the meeting decided to continue to resist the award, and also try to prevent employers engaging nonunion labour.

Trades Hall officials in Melbourne estimate that at least 18,000 employees in the timber mills in Victoria,' New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and part of Western Australia, will bo out of work on Thursday. The employers estimate that at least 30,000 mill hands, building tradesmen, and carters will be rendered 'idle by tho strike.

ADELAIDE, 29th January. Timber employees who did not heed tho 7.30 whistle this morning found the doors closed against them when they presented themselves for work at 8 o'clock. The men are now claiming that they were locked out.

SYDNEY, 29th January. Mr. Jock Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, stated today that tho timber workers would not work more than 44 hours. He added that the men would meet on Thursday night to discuss their position.