1929 Australian timber workers' strike
id:
1929-australian-timber-workers-strike-279-3930782
title:
1929 Australian timber workers' strike
text:
The 1929 Timber Workers strike was a labour dispute in Australia caused by Justice Lukin of the Arbitration Court handing down an industrial award decision on 23 December 1928 to reduce the wages and increase the hours for 20,000 timber workers from a 44-hour week to a 48-hour week. It was the first strike in Australia after the onset of the Great Depression. An initial response by workers at mass meetings on 3 January in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide was to refuse to work the four hours extra
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Australian_timber_workers%27_strike
date created:
date modified:
2022-11-01T18:48:11Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q384567","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q384567"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/1929_Timberworkers_Strike.jpg","width":582,"height":482}
fields total:
13
integrity:
14