WAGES OF WHEAT HANDLERS.
DEADLOCK IN SYDNEY. [Bv Cat'.*—Pt*m Association—CopvrigM.) (Australian and '7. Cable Association.) (Received December 6th, 10.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 6. A conference of the Australian Workers' Union and the wheat shipping firms to adjust lumping rates for the season proved abortive, the men firmly demanding the rates of the last two years, and the firms desiring a reduction in wages of twenty shillings a week.
>! Tho secretary of the Australian Workers' Union stated it was practically certain that wheat would be de- [ clared "black" if the threat to reduce » wages was carried out. This would > have far-reaching effects, ultimately j involving the waterside workers and I the seamen.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17631, 7 December 1922, Page 9
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