FIERY TALK
TIMBER STRIKERS URGED “STOP AT NOTHING,” ONE SPEAKER. RECOGNISES DEFEAT. (Australian Pres* Association.) (Received 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. There was much fiery talk at a mass mooting of the striking timber workers at the Trades Hall.
Speakers urged the men to “stop ad nothing” and “prevent waggons from leaving the yards.”
The names of loyal workers were read out and a speaker declared: “Now you know where they live.” One striker, however, addressing the meeting, asked: “Why don’t you tell the truth and say we are beaten?” Financial troubles and weakening of the morale of the men seems to have broken the back of the strike.
Sydney delegates have been summoned to Melbourne by the Centra! Strike Committee and there is a possibility of resumption on, the 48 hoars’ basis.
An urgent and last desperate appeal has been made from the Australian Council of Trades Unions in Melbourne, to the federated unions asking for funds.
A message from Melbourne states that definite proposals for a settlement of the timber strike were made yesterday on the lines that the men are prepared to return to work on the basis of a 48-hours’ week, which has been the chief obstacle to settlement, providing further inquiry is made whether the industry is able to afford a return to the 44-hours’ week.
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 5
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