SYDNEY WATERSIDE DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 21 December 1911, Page 5

SYDNEY WATERSIDE DISPUTE.

• -6TERMS OF THE AWAHD. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright (Rec." December 20, 10.20 p.m.) Sydney, December 20. The special board appointed to inquire into the late waterside workers' trouble has issued its award. The award, which applies to wharf labourers employed in tho inter-State and coastal trades, practically leaves the rato of pay unaltered. Tho pay for casual work is fixe<l at Is. •Id. per hour, the claim of Is. 6d. per hour being refused. The overtime ra:o between 7 a.m. on Monday and 1 p.m. on Saturday is fixed at Is. ]OJd. an hour. For work on Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Light Hour Day, tho pay is to be at the rate of -Is. ijd. an hour, and on other recognised holidays 2s. 3d. Some of the working conditions are varied, and represent reductions iu the working hours. Men engaged but not sent to work arc to Ijf pai-.l full rales for the lir.-t hour or portion thereof, and half rates afterwards. The much-disputcd tea hour has been fixed from 5.30 p.m. t., 15.30 p.m. Preference is to lie granted to unionists. The award will have a currency of two years. the burden of armaments. (Rec. December 20, 11.30 p.m.) Berlin, December 20. The Estimate's for 1012 show a deficit of «£2,157,000, mainly due to the widening of the Kiel Canal. Compared with 1911, the navy expenditure increased by X 1,277,000, and the army by X 1,000,000. A National Defence League is forming to help tho army. It is on similar lines to the Navy League. MORE TROUBLE THREATENED. (IJec. December 21, 1 a.m.) . Sydney, December 20. The wharf labourers are dissatisfied with the new award. It is understood iliat they intend to appeal on the ground that the award is practically- the -old agreenient against which they struck. A recurrence of the trouble is threatened. The men engaged on the North Coast Company's steamer Burringbar tonight refused to work oveitime. The vessel had been loaded in the bows, but her stern lias light, and she could not get away until the cilice staff finished the loading. mi „ ... Jsberan, December 20. The anti-British boycott at Shiraz has ceased.