TIMBER WORKERS UPHEAVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 6

TIMBER WORKERS UPHEAVAL

HOCUS OF WORK. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, Fob. 13. It is reported that the Newcastle timber workers have'resumed, but that . l is under the forty-four hour week conditions. 'I ho Trades Hall officials declare that they are not perturbed by the timber merchants’ threat to. engage tree labour. They are of the opinion that the merchants will not get. much of a response. The wiiion officials add that they have been advised that the majority of the Newcastle timber yards have reverted to the forty-four hour week, and that all their men have been re-engaged. SCENES AT MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. There were scenes to-day at the South wharf here volunteer drivers were stoned by the Unionist strikers from the timber yards. The police took a hand and they discharged revolvers over the heads of the disturbers. A policeman chased one assailant half a mile, and caught him in a waterside office and dragged him out. MR HUGHES’ OPINION. CANBERRA, Feb. 13.

Mr W. M. Hughes, commenting on the action of the Trades Unions desiring to 1 withdraw from the Arbitration Court, said that their action amounted to a frontal attack on .the Arbitration system. They had everything to gain bv arbitration, which afforded a relatively economical means of redressing grievances. Their action was most illconsidered. SOME SYDNEY FIRMS WORKING FULL TIME. 'SYDNEY, Feh. 14.

The employers of the timber trade report at least ten Sydney firms are working full time on the 48-hours week, as a result of a call issued yesterday for free labour, many applications were received from men seeking employment. The move took the Union officials hy surprise. Mr Corke, Secretary of the Timber Merchants’ . Association, denies the statement that many firms are working staffs on the 44-hours.

NEW ZEALA? T DEIUS SUCCESS. LONDON, Feb. 12. The New Zealander, W. J. Kalaugh er, competing for tlie Oxford University inter-College Cup, won the high hurdles in 17 4-ssec.