LABOUR AFFAIRS
STRIKE IN CHICAGO. Chioago, April Ift. One hundred thousand trade union* ists struck as an outcome of the failure of sixteen thousand carpenters to secure increases in wages. The entire building and construction' woi'k of Chicago is at a standstill. FEDERATION DISSOLVED. m , . Sydney, April 17. The Australian Federation of Laboui has dissolved, in consequence of the formation of a federation of Coalminers' "Unions. GOODS MADE IN PRISONS. Sydney, April 17.fhe Labour Conference has resolved that goods produced by prison labour confined within prisons should not be allowed to compete with outside manufactures. . AGAINST STATE SWEEPS. (Rec. April, 18,'3.30 p.m.) Sydney) 'April 17. The Labour Conference resolved against legalising State sweeps; to fa-, vour preference to unionists in all Government Departments; throwing open the Public Sen-ice to women and girls on the same basis men. and boys, by competitive examinations.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2439, 19 April 1915, Page 6
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142LABOUR AFFAIRS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2439, 19 April 1915, Page 6
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