BRICKLAYERS IN QUEENSLAND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 7

BRICKLAYERS IN QUEENSLAND.

LETTER TO THE TRADES COUNCIL. Tile following letter, dealing- frith the recent controversy concerning bricklayers in Qtieens,v.?f received yesterday by tha secretary c-iiingvou Trades and Labour Council I,' "• Brown) from I.!r. J. Pisrpoir.t, secretary ot tho United Operative Bricklayers' Society ot Queensland:"In answer to your cabled request for narof C Btisb ? ne ' t!lc """"Us ot the Brick ayers Association vera surprised tfil'V l " 1 ! 1 their secretary lied cabled to r ! i ' a,u ' th ' s was Mt believed .intil tV /! you ,n, caj -°. to V0l,c!l fol ' the truth of i or '<- • Is a bit of work about at wi•' i■ U 111 "? < ? I!tl1 , Uure v ' i!l a Rood J briciuayers looking {or work. Our members are fli>i.erui)nod to insist on all brickle'-crs joining the society. Some of die contractors, baring non-unionists working for them lnvn been left short of men through our members id using to work wil.u thtni. This has been ?hn/f? SOU °'i I contl- actovs for trying to bod tho market here. The Contractors are i.ia.uiv; us join tne W-j.ks Board, which is npinst cur wisii, but the law compels us! v„„ -T- slloU ' 1 (1 demand this month to reduce ,?, JU - fur e 's''t hours, which *e won by a strike ten months a»o, this soI 1! {-i, adv, . S6 »= 'Warn all bricklayers o keep away irom Brisbane.' There is" no lis.v aoi'k coming out, this month. Twenty society;"" 5013 ' m ° S 3 ' *«»««* Jlave our The letter is dated March 9 "n^?| !d >7°M r °i; ort '; 1 - the secretary of (he ?" m • >"' V brlc js :a 3'fl" who leaves V.'elLii;itou to, Br:sbae«, r,U v knowing tko object or tho employers, is a blackleg."