LABOR IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 19025, 21 August 1925, Page 5

LABOR IN AUSTRALIA

UNREST AND STRIKES RAILWAYS DOWN TOOLS i Pma Ansociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.2. Press Association. BRISBANE, August 21. (Received August 21, at 11.15 a.m.) Two thousand employees at tiro Ipswich Railway Workshops downed tools. The action was taken to impress upon tho Arbitration Court and tho Government that they resented the court’s refusal to grant them a 5 per cent, increase in wages, which they recently demanded. It is not known at present whether the men intend to stop out or if tho move is merely a demonstration of their feelings. STRIKE AT CANBERRA. SIX HUNDRED CARPENTERS OUT. SYDNEY, August 21. (Received August 21, at 10.40 a.m.) A strike occurred among the carpenters at Canberra due to the men working on one of tho hostels being compelled to work a forty-eight-hour week. Six hundred carpenters are out. The Chief Commissioner informed the men that they would he paid off unless they resumed, and as a result several hundred left tho works. Tho General Secretary of all the unions at Canberra subsequently stated that unless the carpenters were reinstated and granted a forty-four-hour week tho members of all the other unions employed in the Federal capital would bo called out.