CASUAL LABOUR
ARBITRATION JUDGE’S COMMENTS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, July 19. Mr Justice Beeby, in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, condemned casual labour on the waterfront during the hearing of a claim by the Ship Painters and Dockers’ Union for a new award. He said there was nothing worse in any community than casual labour. The man who had no place in society Ipit just wandered about hawking his labour by the hour was in an unenviable position. He pointed out that there was a small group of ships’ painters and dockers earning a little over 60s a week, the next group 40s, and the last group under 40s. The remedy seemed to be to limit the number of men scrambling for jobs and throw the responsibility upon the State of finding work for the surplus. Mr Justice Beeby mentioned the case of wharf labourers in Brisbane a few years ago, when at least 1,400 men were competing for work. These were eventually reduced in number to 700, with the result that 1 all were earning £4 a week and were permanently employed.
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Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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183CASUAL LABOUR Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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