WORK AND WAGES
« TTMARU, September 17. The Wharf Laborers' Union last night drew up a statement of claims to be laid before the employers (shipowners, charterers, and stevedores operating here) as the basis of an industrial agreement. The usual preference to unionists; to firing of meal hours; day and night men to be given ten minutes to cool when hot from other work; if sent into the freezer hold the cold blast to be shut off during work; .six holidays are named when the pay is to be 3s an hour, and Sunday work 4s. ' At present the usual rates are Is 3d an hour, and Is 6d for overtime on sailcre, and Is 6d and 2s on steamers. The rate for sailers to be raised to that on steamers. The railway employes on the wharf are not affected, as ±hey did not desire a change. A long discuision on the rotation system of employment followed, and it wa« finally resolved not to ask for its adoption. A committee-wag appointed to lay the proposals before the eiUr plovers.
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Evening Star, Issue 11656, 17 September 1901, Page 4
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178WORK AND WAGES Evening Star, Issue 11656, 17 September 1901, Page 4
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