WORK AND WAGES
PREFERENCE TO WATER SID I UNIONISTS WITHDRAWN.
FEDERAL CABINET REPEALS LABOR REGULATIONS.
(U.P.A. by Elec. Tol. Copy right.) CANBERRA, Jan. 8.
After a 12-hour Cabinet meeting, Mr. Lyons announced that- Cabinet had decided to repeal the regulations made under the Transport Workers) Act giving preference to waterside unionists. Mr. Lyons said these regulations were made by tho last Government after the Government had been defeated, and at a time when it did not have a majority in either Ilouso of Parliament. The regulations gave preference to members of tho W atcrsido Workers’ Federation, which had been definitely refused by the Arbitration Court.
WINNIPEG CAR MEN TO STRIKE
PROTEST AGAINST WAGE CUT,
(U P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Jail. 8, 7.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 7. Car men and track workers of the Street Railway Company at Winnipeg voted by an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike in protest against tho proposed 10 per cent reduction in .wages.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11533, 9 January 1932, Page 7
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