LABOUR COMBINE.
ONE BIG UNION.
AMALGAMATION EST THE AIR.
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Sydney, January 16. Amalgamation appears to be in the industrial air at the present time. Besides the inter-State consolidation of. bushworkers, and the State unification of labourers' unions, a proposal is on foot to form an inter-State federation of tho building trade organisations.
The clerks, 6hop assistants, and storemen are also contemplating amalgamation.',.
The '"Worker," the official organ of the Labour party, announces that if the scheme is adopted by a conference of delegates and accepted by the unions, the amalgamation will have a roll-call of 100,000. This will mark another great advance, and the ideal of one big union embracing the workers in every calling will : have been brought appreciably nearer realisation. . . , BABBIT TEAPPEES' STEIKB; Sydney, January 16. . ,- Four hundred ..rabbit trappers have 6truck at Gunnedah. ;They are,demanding 7d. and 3d. each for big and email rabbits respectively. It is feared' the trouble will become widespread owing. to the trappers joining the Bush Unions' Amalgamation, which intends to operate throughout the Commonwealth.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1650, 17 January 1913, Page 5
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175LABOUR COMBINE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1650, 17 January 1913, Page 5
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