WATERSIDE WORK
A correspondent ("Hook-on") submits that present methods of working the port ure costly to the public. "The employers asked for and got 1700.men to work the port. Now, these men are in constant attendance at the stands for labour, yet we have a chosen few earniug from £4 to '£6 per week, and the remainder trooping up weekly to the Hospital: Board for sustenance. If the work was more evenly distributed, I understand that we could all get on an average £3 per week. Now, sir, which is best: for some, to get £5 per week and others nil, and bo forced to go for charity at the ratepayers' expense, or all to share alike? Recently we took a ballot on sharing out the work, and about 1200 voted for it, and the remainder ngainst it. Machinery has permanently taken the place of 500 men; yet the employer demands' 1700 men, many of whom must be fed and kept by the ratepayers until they are engaged for a few hours."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 11
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172WATERSIDE WORK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 11
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