LABOUR WORLD
AUSTRALIAN WAGE CUTS. SYDNEY, February 28. William Preece, a colliery owner at Lithgow, in asking for a: suspension of labour conditions, informed the Court, that he had mortgaged his home to provide the miners’- fortnightly pays of £45 and £BO. He declared that the. Western Miners’ Federation was trying to make the proprietors operate the. pits at a loss, demanding exorbitant rates and conditions. NEWCASTLE,. February 28. Trade unionists will on March.- 4, discuss declarations for a general strike throughout Australia. SYDNEY, February 28. Tho State Labour Caucus has approved the Cabinet proposal, that the basic wage be fixed o n a standard for husband a,nd wife, supplemented by an endowment for each child.
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Grey River Argus, 2 March 1931, Page 6
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