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AUSTRALIAN UNION BOYCOTT. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) MELBOURNE, February 11. As a means of resistance of future awards of the Arbitration Court, which may determine upon a fortyeight hours’ week being worked in other industries, a conference of unions convened by the Australian Council of Trades Unions, decided to institute a boycott against the Court. It is expected that approximately six hundred thousand unionists throughout the Commonwealth will be affected, if the whole of the 'affiliated unions agree to carry out the resolution. TIMBER WORKERS RESUME. ADELAIDE, February 11. More members of the Timber Workers’ Union returned to work. No strike pay was distributed, and this caused discontent among those who have not gone back.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1929, Page 5
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