DIRECT ACTION BY AUSTRALIAN TRADE UNIONS FOR 40-HOUR WEEK
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Received! Thursday, 10.25 - MBLBOU.RNE, February 6. Direet aetion for a 40-hour week from jSIay 1 aiid refuSiil- to take part in basie wage hearings, have been deeided upon by trade nnioiis. According to 31r. A. E. Monk, seeretary of the Australtisiau Couneil of Trade Unions, this meansthat workers throughout AustraHa wiJT not work lenger than a 40-ho4r week after May 1, A conference of lrfore than 150 inter-^tate deiegates of 76 Federai Trade Unions today enclorsed the deeision on these lines by the inter-State exeeutive of the eonneil. The main proposals are a national one-day strike to be held on llay 1 to enforee tlie 40-hour week and non-partieipation in any basic wage ease before the Co'mmonwealth Arbitration Gonrt until tlie Court's judgment on the 40-hour week ease is announced.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 February 1947, Page 5
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