TIMBER WORKERS’ STRIKE
MASTER BUILDERS’ OFFER.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.)
(Received May 11, 10 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, May 11.
Appealing to Premier McPherson to settle the dispute, as it effected the building industry, a deputation from the Melbourne Master Builders’ Association gave assurances that if the men were willing to return to work under a guarantee of continuity of service, the Association would undertake to find employment for ten thousand builders operatives on Monday. This ’ number ’ represents an increase of twenty-five per cent on the numbei’ employed before the trouble began. They also indicated that there was a likelihood of work being found for an additional four thousand within a week.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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