$240 a month for nothing
(N Z Press Assn.—Copyright) ADELAIDE, March 10. A South Australian wharfsider receives a guaranteed $240 a month for doing nothing, and has enjoyed the privilege for three years. Mr Geoffrey Hogan, of Mount Gambier, is a blacklisted non-union labourer who nas not lifted a bale at the docks since 1968. But he has been receiving his pay cheque for appearing for each shift at the wharf, where he waits long enough to answer his name on the roll-call, and then goes home. Mr Hogan was black-listed when he refused to pay a $l---year union levy to a social fund. Although he is barred from waterside hotels, he cannot by law, lose his job.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32554, 13 March 1971, Page 15
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118$240 a month for nothing Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32554, 13 March 1971, Page 15
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