N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1926, Page 1

N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE.

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ENGINEERS RESUMING. SYDNEY, Alay 16. It is reported the Balmain, and South Teralba mine managements have conceded the engineers’ demands, and operations will be resumed by these to-morrow. Otherwise the coal trouble position is unchanged. 44-HOURS FIGHT. Alay 15. As anticipated, the forty-four hour strike has expended to the motor and coach body builders, wlio failed to report for work to-day. On tho masters’ ukase, they will ho locked out on Monday. Some two thou and arc affected. SYDNEY, Alay 16The Coach-makers’ Union has decided to join the forty-four hour moi cment. Tho decision was taken in disregard of a .notification from the Federal Executive at Alelhourne, threatening to expel the N.S.AV. branch, unless °it complied with tho Federal award, and worked forty-eight hours. The employers of the coach and motor body works claim that, in spite of the union’s ukase and efforts to prevent them, a good proportion of the employees of a number of factories worked on Saturday. The latest development in the 44honrs’ fight is that a mass meeting of tho building trades employees yesterday resolved to fight for the fortyfour hour week to he worked in five days, and also to concentrate their force on creating one building employees’ union, intend of sectional bodies.