AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1926, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) upheaval threatened. OYER. 44-HOUR WEEK. SYDNEY, May 1. The latest developments of the fortyfour 'hours’ trouble is that the district committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union this afternoon decided to instruct its members to present themselves for work on Monday morning, despite the notices posted by the employers. that unless they worked on Saturday they will bo dismissed. The Union has seven thousand members, 45 per cent, of whom enjoyed the 44 hours under the State award. . Several affected unions are arranging to hold stop-work and mass meetings to-mor-row and a meeting of secretaries of all such unions is called for Monday forenoon.

The latest report from. Melbourne is a statement by .Mr Holloway (secretary of the Trades’ Hall Council) that at the conclusion of a lengthy interview with Mr Bruce, with a view to securing his intervention, Mr Bruco promised consideration of the representations made to him. It is, however, considered unlikely that he will depart from the attitude previously adopted, that lie had no power to intervene. The position at present stands that if the members of affected unions carry out their decision not to work tomorrow, they will not he allowed to resume work on Monday and a wide industrial trouble will be precipitated, wherein probably the unaffected unions will also become involved. Both sides appear determined to stand their ground.

A GRUESOME TRAGEDY.

SYDNEY, April 30.

David Lynch, a selector near Tarie, has been missing for some days. When a policeman, and a doctor broke into In’s house, they were savagely attacked by a large kangaroo dog. They saw Lynch’s body lying on the floor with the head blown off. and a gun alongside. They had to shoot the dog before they could gain an entrance. Then they discovered that a large portion of the body had been consumed by the dog during the five days that it had been locked in the room since Lynch’s death.