AUSTRALIAN BUILDING TRADE
PROSPEROUS CONDITIONS. : k . THE TOLL OF STRIKES. Wrtam Association—By Telegraph—Copyright • ‘ , SYDNEY, October 22 (Received Oct. 22, at 10.10 p.m.) ■ The annual conference of the Master Builders’ Federation of Australasia has opened. In his presidential address Mr Clement Langford stated that 90 per cent, of. the industrial disputes in the commonwealth were attributable to the compulsory arbitration system. He said that during the present year there had been 120 new industrial disputes, involving 58.617 workers and causing a loss of £857,417 in wages. During the past ■ nine years there were more strikes and industrial turmoils than in any past period in Australian history, the workers in that period losing £11,006.026 in waj;es. Sptaking at a welcome to the delegates, the Lord Mayor said that the building trade throughout Australia had never been more prosperous. The cost of the buildings being erected in Sydney this year was double that of any previous year. Over £2,000,000 worth alone was in the course of construction in one street.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10
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