8000 LABOURERS INVOLVED IN N.S.W. BUILDING 'STRIKE
SYDNEY, October 1.
Throughout New South Wales 8000 builders’ labourers stopped work tonight, holding up the construction of thousands of homes, public works, and hospitals. The general secretary of the Builders’ Federation said he felt sure that the men would not return to work until their claim for a new award was actually in the court. At a Trades Hall meeting the building trades group of unions decided ,to support the labourers. It instructed all members of unions other than labourers to report for work as usual tomorrow, but to refuse to carry out any work normally done by labourers. ' - The decision to strike was made a week ago by the New South Wales branch of the Builders’ Labourers’ Federation, on a demand for the immediate hearing of their- claim, submitted two years ago, for a new .award.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1947, Page 4
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