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SHORTER HOURS MOVE BIG WORKS CLOSED IN SYDNEY. By" Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright (Received September 7, 9.45 p.m.) f SYDNEY, September 7. The management of Metter's stoveworks has decided to close the works, as the men refuse to work 48 hours weekly. Five hundred employees are affected. So far the dispute is confined to the iron trades, but the leaders of the men refer to an upheaval similar to that of 1917, and hint that tho strikers will not be so orderly as they were then. n It is known that the leaders hare the "Big Union" move in view, but their intention has. not yet been divulged. Tho men are still working at the nayal dockyards. Cabinet considered tho position and decided to frame, legislation to reduce the hours of. labour where it is found practicable to do so. POSITION AT NEWCASTLE. NEWCASTLE,' September 7. Tho trimmers at the port declined to work after 4 o'clock, and this compelled tho cranemen at ooal-loading appliances to stop work.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10689, 8 September 1920, Page 5
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