WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16567, 3 June 1914, Page 9

WORK AND WAGES.

PERTH BUILDING DISPUTE. £* By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ~"-■'l (Received June 8, 12.45 a.m.) ' PERTH, June 3. ~; Three , thousand .five hundred men ~- have been rendered idle by the dispute ';, in the building trade. j-'i'ij NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN ?.\ TIMBER WORKERS. '. X [From Oer Correspondent.] ,„.' INVERCARGILL, June 2. As the result of the recent visit of v the secretary of the Southland Sawmill Workers' Union, Mr T. O'Byrne, to -■' Australia it appears, that a federaton'of the timber workers of the Commonwealth and New Zealand is not far off. , The secretary of the Federal Council ' has written to Mr O'Byrne that at a . recent conference of the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union in Australia H was decided that there should bo mutual recognition of tickets between that Union and the New Zealand tinv ber workers. He also states that it is the desire of the Australian organisation that New Zealand should send a , representative to a future.conference, *,., with a view to effecting complete feder- 7 ation. ,'ir