STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA
THREATENED EXTENSION OF AIRCRAFT HOLD-UP. OTHER MUNITIONS WORKERS ASKED TO JOIN. (Recd This Day 9.20 a.m.) ’ MELBOURNE, This Day. The strike of engineers in the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation’s works at Fishermen’s .bend threatens to extend to the munition works at Footscray and Maribyrnong, also to the defence factories in New South Wales, the workers of which will be asked to make common cause with the strikers. A meeting of shop stewards in Victorian munition works is being held tomorrow night, and will discuss this aspect, t Mr J. Cranwell, chairman of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, explained that the new award for aircraft work, which caused the dispute, was “infamous,” providing for unlimited junior process workers and apprentices and allowing employers to contact any employee to train him on skilled work at less than 40 per cent of his margin over the classification rates. Mr Cranwell claimed that all engineers would eventually suffer through this award. Hence the need for common cause.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1938, Page 5
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164STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1938, Page 5
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