GENERAL LABOURERS FAVOUR RESUMPTION.
WANT WAGES BOARD
RE-MODELLED.
(Received April 9, 9.£0 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 9. The Railway Workers' and General, Labourers' Union, to which belong the strikers at the coal staging, favours resumption, of work. The executive - of" that union a resolution to the effect that the. Wages-Board system should, be re-modelled. The chairman should not be allowed to sit on more than one Board, all > awards should be retrospective from the date of filing claims, since the undue delay in reaching finality was the cause of the present unrest in Now South Wales, and tends to bring the Arbitration Court ! into disfavour with the workers. Mr Carmichael states that a Royal Commission; will 'still be appointed, there being many industrial matters requiring inquiry.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8530, 9 April 1913, Page 5
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