MOUNT LYELL MINES
OVER 1,000 MEN IDLE REFUSAL TO WORK FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR WEEK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright HOBART, July 20. (Received July 21, at 1.30 a.m.) Tho Alt. Lyell Company, which is exempted from tho provision of the forty-four-hour award, in response to a threat by the men that they would work-only forty-four instead of fortyeight hours, issued a warning that they would be dismissed. The union officials conferred with tho management, and afterwards the men decided to refuse to resume work tomorrow, except under the forty-four-hours award. Tn this case over 1,000 employees will bo idle.
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Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5
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