RELIEF WORK RATES
A REDUCTION IN WAGES (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIH, This Day. Complaints have been received by the Secretary of the Trades Hall that the wages of workers employed at the public works at Portobello have been reduced without notice from 14s to 12s and from 12s to 9s for married and single men respectively. The Department states that the agreement with tho Workers' Union for 14s applies only to men employed on standard works at normal times, not to relief works. The Portobello road work was only relief work, on which men had received 14s and 12s, and it was only now that these workers had been called on to come down to the same standard as the other relief workers.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1927, Page 10
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123RELIEF WORK RATES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1927, Page 10
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