MELBOURNE WATERSIDERS
♦ CLAIMS TOR HIGHER WAGES. (licc. August 15, 7.13 p.m.) ■ ' Melbourne, August 15. Giving evidence in the Arbitration Court in connection with tho Waterside Workers' Federation case for higher wages, the president of the Sydney branch slated that the claims included li-clde rates on Sundays and certain holidays, with a minimum of four hours' engage,uont. This might mean llmt the men would have to be paid 30s, each for shilling passengers' luggage, or 58s. each for shifting explosives, though they actually worked only half au hour.—Press Assn. ..
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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