ONE DAY STRIKE
PROPOSED BY ENGINEERS IN SYDNEY. WAGE AND HOUR' DEMANDS. SYDNEY. June 22. A mass meeting of 5000 engineers decided to hold a one-day strike on Thursday to discuss their demands on the employers, chiefly in defence industries in this State, for more pay and improved conditions. The meeting will decide whether there should be a general strike in defiance of the Prime Minister's recent declaration prohibiting strikes in war industries. The men are demanding a 10 per, cent increase in wages and five shifts of eight hours from Monday to Friday inclusive with payment on the basis of a 44-hour week. They also are demanding heavy increases in pay for apprentices.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1941, Page 5
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