MINERS BLOW OUT 40-HOUR WEEK CLAIM
Received Thursdav, 8.10 p.m. MELBOURNE, May 23. The address of Mr. R. At. Eggleston ! who is putting forward the workers'j case for tlie general adoption of a 40-1 hour week, concluded today with a | series of brushes with the Arbitration I Court Judges. To Air. Kggletson's con- 1 tention that tlie 40-liour week . would 1 mean not onlv an absence of stoppages but also of resentment and dissatisfac- 1 tion, Judge Drake Brockman reimlrked : j " I suggest you look to the coai indus- j try for an answer to that argunient. " i The miners have had a 40-liour week | for some years and are threatening to , tie up indus try. Air. Eggleston was also taken up j when he said the nien were asked dur- 1 ing the war to give up privileges. Judge O'AIara: "1 do not know I about that. Your address for the last hour has been coutrary to the facts as I know them." j
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 May 1946, Page 5
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