MAY LAST LONG TIME
Strike on Goldfields
Perth, January 10.
After a union meeting at Kalgoorlie, the secretary handed to the Chamber of Mines a letter stating that the men would only work 44 hours a week.
This will close the door to negotiations, and the union leaders are now preparing for a protracted stoppage.
A Kalgoorlie message on January 7 stated that 6000 miners were on strike from all mines on the Golden Mile at Boulder. The dispute was due to a refusal by the men to agree to the 88-hour fortnight, consisting of 40 hours spread over five days and 48 hours in the following week which is provided under the new award. The men are demanding a continuation of the former 44-hour week.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19350111.2.93
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
126MAY LAST LONG TIME Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in