44 HOURS DIFFICULTIES BEING SETTLED AMICABLY

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 8

44 HOURS DIFFICULTIES BEING SETTLED AMICABLY

DORMAN, LONG AND CO. ISSUE ULTIMATUM TO MEN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. A us. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 4. 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 4. Difftcuties arising from the settlement cf the forty-four hours strike so far have been surmounted amicably. It is expected that within a few days the metal trades and motor body building industries will have returned to their normal condition. Dorman, Long and Co., builders of the harbour bridge, have notified their employees who are members of Federal unions that they will be paid only for time worked. Several months ago, when the forty-four hour week was operated in New South Wales, the company, at the request of the Government, paid their employees working under Federal awards at the rate of forty-eight hours, although they worked only forty-four, the extra cost b\* arrangement being passed on to the Government. In view of the recent agreement, however, under which the metal trades unions agreed to accept forty-four hours’ pay for forty-four hours’ work the company has refused to give Federal unionists forty-eight hours’ pay. A deputation from the men will wait Upon the Minister for Works, Mr Flannery, in regard to the position.