CHARWOMEN PROTEST
Meeting Held On City Pavement
MELBOURNE, August 17.
Nineteen angry charwomen stood on a Melbourne city footpath at 7.30 a.m. today and denounced their employer, a wealthy insurance company. The company had announced that 10 of the women cleaners might have to be dismissed after a State Wages Board granted them an increase from 6s lljd an hour to 8s BJd. Inside the building mops brooms, polishers and dust cans lined the corridors where the charwomen had left them to march downstairs to their meeting on the footpath. A union official told the women that they would get an extra £5 14s 9d in their pay packets “But,” he said, shaking his upraised fist, “the management has told us they cannot afford it.” The women voted unanimously in favour of an emphatic protest against the proposed dismissals.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 13
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