CONDITIONS ON RAILWAY WORKS
COMPLAINTS OF LOW PAY. WHAKATANE, This Day. A special committee of the Taneatua Chamber of Commerce, after visiting the railway works where complaints were investigated, reported that the men generally were discouraged by "their low pay, which 1 did not exceed the rate naid for shifting soil fifteen years ago. It is esti-. mated that two hundred men .lately tried to work at New Awaken", but abandoned it. The overseers' keen cutting of the price also caused irritation. The committee found in a large cutting at Whitepine Bush only two men employed with two barrows, who complained of the pay, which was less than a penny a barrowload, and did not exceed the payment given twenty years ago. Plenty of labour was available if it was paid the. same rate as that paid by local bodies. The committee found between Matata and Taneatua, a distance of 19 miles, only 35 men, controlled by nine bosses, who never took their coats off.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1920, Page 6
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165CONDITIONS ON RAILWAY WORKS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1920, Page 6
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