TIMBER WORKERS’ DISPUTE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 21 January 1929, Page 8

TIMBER WORKERS’ DISPUTE

MEN DETERMINED ON 44-HOUR WEEK. (United Press Association—By Cables Copyright.] (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) Melbourne, Jan. 2v. It was decided yesterday evening that union officials would attend the Arbitration Court on Wednesday, when Mr. Justice Larkin delivers his final judgment on the timberworkei s’ award. A large section of men, including the carpenters, are determined to work only 44 hours a week DEMONSTRATION IN SYDNEY. Sydney, Jan. 20. About 800 men employed in various branches of the timber industry marched from the Trades Hall, Sydney. through the city to-day, obstructing traffic, to Belmont Park, where their leaders, Messrs. Garden. Kavanah, and Beasley addressed them, exhorting them to stand solidly for the forty-four hour week, against Mr. Justice Lukin’s award. “Fill the gaols,” was Kavanah’s appeal to the men. Garden claimed that an organised attempt was being made to break down the forty-four hour week. The meeting carried a resolution protesting against Mr Justice Lukin’s award and pledging support to fellow unionists in other States.

A similar demonstration was held in South Australia, where resolutions submitted from the recent Australian Trades Unions Council’s conference in Melbourne were carried by acclamation.