TIMBERMEN'S STRIKE.
ACTION BY BUILDERS.
SUSPENSION OF-" OPERATIONS.
BLOW TO VICTORIAN WORKERS.
EFFORTS FOR SETTLEMENT.
(Received April 30, 9.35 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, April 30. The Melbourne employers in file timber trade have taken a step designed to enforce a settlement of tho strike. Every building job in the metropolitan area is to be suspended at 5 p.m. to-day by ordor of tho Master Builders' Federation of Victoria.
This suspension of work will render 7C30 men idle. r J?hero will be no resumption of building operations until the trades unionists agree to handle "black" timber or until the strike is settled.
It is expected that a further 5000 men in the auxiliary trades will bo out of work by the end of the week. The Lord Mayor ,of Melbourne and a committee are trying to settle the dispute. It is understood that the Trades Union Council is to meet the employers' representatives, providing that the conference is unconditional.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 13
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