STRIKE AFFAIRS
N.S.W. MINERS
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE.
(Australian Press Association).
SYDNEY, August 13
The. settlement of the dispute in the New South Wales coal industry means that contract, miners will receive an immediate increase of ten per cent in wages. Day wage employees will receive five per cent increase. In other words, the wage concessions represent, in the aggregate, a slight increase on the wage cuts imposed seven years The, agreement is to operate from next- JYlondav.
The terms of the agreement will he reviewed ",v a SRxte conference of miners’ delegates to-day, and it is considered likely that their acceptance will be recommended to mass meetings of the miners, early next week.
The 'miners’ delegates were jubilant at tin* outcome of the conference, and declare the concessions are the most substantial received for many years. The terms of settlement will be placed before the miners’ lodges in various districts for ratification. The. Union leaders stated that the cost to the owners of the concessions gained are approximately £"250,060 per year.
STAY-IN STRIKE
MELBOURNE, August 12
A stay-in strike is in progress at West and South Melbourne Gasworks and efforts are being made to extend the dispute xo the provincial centres. About seven hundred employees are idle, and in complete possession of the plants. The men are demanding an increase in wages above the basic wage. They declare that they will not leave the works until the demands are granted. A limited supply of gas is available throughout Melbourne, which is being generated by superintendents. Neither the Government nor the police have «o far intervened.
40-HOUR WEEK IN AUSTRALIA
CANBERRA, August 13
The Labour will not demand that the Labour Premiers of Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania, should introduce the forty-hour week, to prepare the way for Labour’s Federal election campaign.
A suggestion made to a meeting of the Labour Council of Advice, that such a direction should he sent to the l States, was not supported.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1937, Page 5
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