SYDNEY'S GREAT BRIDGE.
Too much having been promised, when it was loosely said that 98 per cent, of the Sydney Harbour bridge work would be done 'locally and by Australian labour, there is now a tendency to grumble because the tenderers are understood'to be importing a number of skilled workmen, states the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Age." Exactly what their intentions ard in this regard no one knows, but a sug-'' gestion of the necessity for bringing in some workmen has led to alarmed predictions of a flooded labour market, and abrogation of the all-Australian construction promise. It is hinted that the visit of the bridge engineer, Dr. Bradfield, to England, is in furtherance of willingness on the part of the State Government to facilitate English ' construction and labour. The Government, however, is not likely to connive at any evasioi. of even the spirit of the arrangement. The contractors have been given faciii lies enough by the Federal Government under the tariff, and no more latitude, will be allowed than is demonstrably necessary.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18141, 2 August 1924, Page 4
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