44 HOURS WEEK.
EMPLOYEES’ DEMAND. I 800 MEN STRIKE. MELBOURNE, Monday. Eight hundred employees of tlie State Electricity -Commission at Yallourn struck, demanding a 44-hours’ week. They state that they will not return to work until their demands are conceded. CONDITIONS OBJECTED TO. (Received Tuesday, 9.38 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Yallourn strikers are coal workers who object to the new working conditions, providing for a forty-eight-hour week, introduced under the revision of their award, made recently by the Arbitration Court. The action of the men has cut off all supplies of brown coal. If the- strike, lasts” for an extended period it will ineatf that, the poveer-bous'e ,willjbe .forced to dose. Tills .will mean a shortage Of current for the metropolis and throughout the State. The briquetting plant, which supplies a large portion of the industrial and domestic fuel of Melbourne, will cease immediately.
The total number of employees at Yallourn is 1550, of whom 1100 are affected.
A Commission has immediately begun arrangements for emergency supplies for the.cite if the strike lasts.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 November 1926, Page 5
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17444 HOURS WEEK. Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 November 1926, Page 5
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