1000 MEN DISMISSED IN WOOL STORES
(11 a.m.) SYDNEY, Mar. 9. Wool selling brokers have dismissed about 1000 storemen and packers employed in the wool stores.
The committee of management of the Storemen and Packers’ Union has instructed skeleton staffs remaining in all wool stores to give a week’s notice tomorrow and on Friday. After demanding a wage increase of 30/- a week the union three weeks ago banned the removal of wool, hides, skins and tallow from the stores. According to a broker, about 20 per cent of the men have been retained after the dismissals to prevent fire and deterioration. After the remaining unionists are withdrawn office staffs and store managers will take over their duties.
In Canberra the Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, said there was no justification for the dispute extending in the way it did. It was being handled by the proper court authorities, however, and there was no need for the Government to interfere.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22890, 9 March 1949, Page 7
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