LABOUR'S DEMANDS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 7

LABOUR'S DEMANDS

- « 44-HOUR WEEK AGITATION COST TO THE COMMUNITY (By Tclcsrapli-Pross Association-CopyrirfU ' Sydney, May It. ■ A deputation of employers affected -by the 41-hour week agitation, waited upon Mr. G. Canh, ■Minister of Labour, and protested Against the'agitation.', They stated that the ,cost, of "no Saturday work" per annum to the Stato would he eight or ten millions. The redaction of hours would mean.the employment of ]-.500 more workers to maintain the.out-i put. and an additional fifteen . millions would have to bo Spent to provide plant for these 'workers.'. As. neither additional plant nor workers were available, tho scheme would inean the employment' of the ordinary workers at time and a half, which ■■ would cost tho .community another thirty millions : a year—Press Amu. ; BUILDING TRADE"EMPLOYEES . , ■ BALLOT. ' FAVOURS •' RETURN TO • AYORK ON-OLD TERMS. •' " ' .Melbourne, May 14. The ballot of the building trade em-ployees-resulted in a. majority in frtvou'i" • of tho abolition of tho strike for*' the fortv-liour'week, and a .return to work on tho old terms.—Press Assn.; THE FRENCH STRIKES ' A DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. (See. May .14,'9.20 p.m.). '' . Paris, May-: 13.-: A great (;rowd 'bf dockers assembled nt tho gaol at' Havre demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Two. squadron's'of chasseurs drove the crowd from tho streets. Dynamiters destroyed'the track of the Paris-Bordeaux railway near Tours. The 'damage was discovered just in time. .'. The General Confederation of Labour is appealing to the International So-' cialists to cooperate to prevent the suppression of "the confederation. The'latter has ordered' a general gas 6trike'on Friday—Aus.-A.Z. Cablo Assn. '