MINERS' WAGES
One hears occasionally of wages earned by men on the coalfields in New South Wales that makes the community wonder whether the lot of the coalminers is quite as hard as it is sometimes pictured. A few days ago, for example, the public were told that two miners had drawn between them £117 for eleven days' work in the stone drive of one of the big collieries. In four collieries tho pay for Christmas exceeded any other pay yet received. In the case in which tho two men earned £117 for eleven days' work, there were no restrictions as to output on that particular class of work, which illustrates what the miner can really do when he is not restrained. This, Fswever, cannot of course be taken as a standard. The extraordinary pay of the two men Teprosents hard-earned money, i'or which full value was given. No donbt the advent of the Christmas and Nt-w Year festivities was something of a stimulus to their special exetilon
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1926, Page 9
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168MINERS' WAGES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1926, Page 9
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