Aust. Dockers To Stop
( N .Z.P.A .-Reuter —Copyright) MELBOURNE, March 19. Australian waterside workers will stop work tor 24 hours from midnight tonight. About 21,000 men in 44 Australian ports will take part in the stoppage, which has been called by the Waterside Workers’ Federation federal council. The council said that the stoppage was a united protest against the Federal Govrnment and employers’ “denial of wage justice and protection against the accelerating effects of mechanisation.*' The federation earlier this year asked shipowners to increase waterside workers' wages by 7s an hour and to increase their annual leave from two to four weeks. The present hourly rate of pay is 11. 7Jd. Shipowners rejected the request and invited the federation to submit its claims to arbitration.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30085, 20 March 1963, Page 13
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