FORTY-HOUR WEEK IN AUSTRALIA
Keceived "Wednesday, 9 p.m, MELBOURNL, May 22. An application for a forty-hour week was directly backed by 53unions today. Presenting the Union's case, Mr. R. M. Eggleston, on behalf of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, said it was the primary claim by the workers for hetter eonditions. It presented the strongest demonStration of unity among workers that had ever been shown in the Arhitration Court. The unions who backed it represented hundreds of thousands of workers. For half an hour after the opening of the Court, counsel and representatives of industry were still annottncing appearances. The acting Chief Justice, the Hon. E. A. Drake Brockman, is presiding and with him are four other Judges. Mr. Eggleston said that for more. than six years the workers had shelved the claim. They had been constantly assured that the end oi hostilities would mark the dawn of a new era and the case hefore the Court represented the first real test of whether that hope was to be realised.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1946, Page 5
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