STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA
PAYMENT BY RESULTS WORKERS’ OPPOSITION By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright SYDNEY, Thursday. The first shot in the war between employers and employees regarding the introduction of piecework was fired to-day. The award providing for piecework became operative to-day. One hundred and fifty employees of Chubbs's Australian Company, Limited, struck as a protest against the introduction of the new system. Similar action was taken in Victoria, when the employees of Robison Brothers refused to commence work under the new daily hiring system. A mass meeting of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union endorsed, by an overwhelming majority, the decision of the district committee that strikes arising out of the refusal of men to agree to piecework should be made in groups of engineering shops, to be chosen by the committee. The decision will not operate until endorsed by the Federal council of the union. In the meantime the men are calling stop-work meetings immediately to decide whether independent action should be taken. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 July 1927, Page 9
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