AUSTRALIA’S STRIKES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 May 1926, Page 5

AUSTRALIA’S STRIKES

MINING TROUBLE. PINCH BEING FELT , SITUATION LITTLE CHANGED. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—CO PYECGHT. SYDNEY, May 16. It is reported that the Balmain and South Teralbra; mines managements have conceded' the engineers’ demands and that operations will be resumed to-morrow. Otherwise the coal position is unchanged. The coal pinch, as a result of the mine engineers’ strike, is beginning to be felt. The voyage of the steamer Karoolai to West Australia has been cancelled owing to the difficulty of securing bunkering. Other vessels will shortly be affected, failing a settlement. HOURS OF WORK. COACHBUILDERS JOIN STRIKE. SYDNEY, May 16. The latest developments in "the 44hours trouble is that at a mass meeting of the building trades employees, which was held yesterday, it was resolved to light- for a 44-hour week, worked in live clays, and also to concentrate their forces by. creating one building employees’ union instead of sectional -bodies. As anticipated, the" strike has Keen extended to the motor and coach body builders, who failed to report for work to-day. Under the masters’ ukase they will be locked out on Monday. Some 2000 are affected. The Coachmakers’ Union’s decision to join the 44-hour movement was taken in disregard of a notification from the Federal executive in. Melbourne, threatening to expel the New South Wales branch unless it complied with the Federal award and worked 48 hours. The employers at coach and motor body works claim that jn spite of the union’s ukase and efforts to prevent them, a good proportion of the employees of a number of factories worked on Saturday.