BOILERMAKERS' WAGES.
HOW INCREASES ARE SPENT. FOOTBALL AND FUNERALS. (Received IC_O a.m.) LONDON, April 15. The boilermakers and riveters in i federated shipyards have decided not to work overtime if wages be not advanced. < The employers refuse, on the ground of < a decreasing demand for tbe ships, and ] ask for three months' grace owing to j much work being in arrears. ( Mr Hill (secretary of the London ( Boilermakers' Society), in reporting on ( the society's efforts to obtain an advance < in wages, states that tbe employers, in ( their reply, complained that the members i of the society were in the habit of attend- -, ing football matches and funerals, and -, that these absences resulted in a loss of ( 18.S per cent in wages. Many of the men, it was stated, averaged £300 a year. , The employers added that every ad- , vance in wages had been abused by ill- ( conduct and keeping of poor time.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 5
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