TIMBER TROUBLE
COST OK THE 'STOPPAGE. ..(Australian Press' Association) (United Service.V (Rcccivcd this day at 9. a.m.) SYDNEY, May 30. The timber workers strike is now in its eighteenth week. It has involved a Joss Of wages of £231,000, while £IO,OOO was disbursed in strike pay. MERCHANTS DECISION. AIEI.BOURNE, May 30. Tbe i imber Merchants’ Association have decided to re-open' mills' on Tuesday and invite applications to-day from persons willing to work under tho Lukin award, forty-eight hours weekly. ; TIMBER WORKERS’• DEMAXDS; ! -MELBOURNE; May'Bo. . ’Eighteen hundred timber workers' assembled at the- Trades -1 lad, Aid bourne', and were addressed by-. Jock Harden and others. The meeting rcamrinect the• original demands with incompromise on the question of working hours.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 6
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118TIMBER TROUBLE Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 6
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