MORE HOURS A WEEK
REJECTION IN MELBOURNE
NO RESPONSE TO CALL TO
WORK
MELBOURNE, 31st January. Tho timber workers dispute over tho Lukin award providing a forty-eight hours' working week, instead of fortyfour, came to a head in Victoria this morning,' when union members at threo of the biggest timber yards in tho metropolitan area failed to respond to the 7.30 a.m. whistle to start work, after which they found the doors locked against them. The yards affected aro those of John Sharp and Sons, Limited, James Moore and Sous Proprietary, Limited, and Millars' Timber and Trading Company, Limited, all in South Melbourne.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1929, Page 7
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103MORE HOURS A WEEK Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1929, Page 7
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