STORM OF PROTEST
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY WORKERS. FEDERAL JURISDICTION. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 12.5 a.m.) Sydney, February 2. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court having granted an application by New South Wales and South Australian railway authorities for a compulsory conference to consider a proposal to bring all transport workers under the Federal jurisdiction caused a storm, of protest among the various unions which are now governed by State tribunals. Mr J. P. Chapple, secretary of the Australian Railways Union, stated that a mass meeting would be held and the question whether direct action was taken would depend upon the temper of the employees. Their present mood, he added, was bitter and resentful, as the accumulative decrease in railway salaries and wages in the past five years was more than £12,000,000. Now those under State awards were threatened with the loss of the 44 hour week.
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Southland Times, Issue 22240, 3 February 1934, Page 5
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