MINERS’ PLANS FOR WORK ON SATURDAYS MAY BE FOILED
(Rec. 2.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The miners’ plans to work alternate Saturdays to build up local stocks for industrial use during their three weeks’ Christmas holiday are threatened by the Federated Enginedrivers’ and Firemen’s Association, which has told the Joint Coal Board that it will not agree to back Saturday work unless adjustments are made in the wage increases recently granted to mineworkers. Engine-drivers are key workers in the mining industry and Saturday work will be impossible without them. They are discontented because in the recent wage increases men receiving a margin of over 15s had been granted an increase of 3s 6d daily, while those under that margin received only 3s increase.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1947, Page 6
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