NO PLACE IN SOCIETY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12610, 20 July 1935, Page 5

NO PLACE IN SOCIETY

JUDGE CONDEMNS CASUAL L/VBOUR SYSTEM. MEN ON JOBS SHOULD BE LIMITED. STATE SHOULD FIND WORK FOR BALANCE. fU.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received J.uty" 19, 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 19. Judge 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. A man who had. sno place in society, but just wandered about hawking his labour by the hour; was in an unenviable position. He pointed out that there were a small group of ship painters and dockers earning n. little over 60/- a. week; the next group earned 4C’s and the last group under 40/-. The remedy Seemed to He to limit the number of men scrambling for jobs and throw the responsibility upon the State of finding work for the surplus. Judge Beeby mentioned the case of "the wharf workers in Brisbane a Wa-y-ears ago, when at- least 1400 men. competing for work, were even to t'V reduced in number to 700, with t! o result that all were earning £4 a week and were permanently employed.