EVER MORE STRIKES

Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 7

EVER MORE STRIKES

WAGE-PEGGING V. PENALTY RATES TRANSPORT STOPPAGE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA LOOMS (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 3. Though the committee of the Gas Employees’ Union expressed dissatisfaction Avith the recent judgment of the Arbitration Court on week-end penalty rates, it decided not to take immediate strike action. The chief objection of the executive concerned the. decision that the court had no ipoAver to grant the full claims of the union. Mr Chifley conferred in Melbourne with the judges 'of the Arbitration Court, and! flew back to Canberra lato last night for discussions with Dr Evatt on the wage pegging regulations. Work at the South Coast collieries Avas resumed to-day, folloAving the the settlement of the inter-union dispute. A report from Adelaide indicates a threat of a complete transport stoppage in South Australia. After a meeting last night to discuss the judgment on week-end penalty rates, the railwaymen, locomotive engineers, tramways employees, and transport workers decided to recommend to a mass meeting of the members of the four unions on Sunday that all transport Should cease on Monday morning, April 21, unless the claims were met. Ten thousand men Avouhl be affected.