AWARD DEMANDS
AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS. I SYDNEY, May 17. Higher pay. a five-day week, 40 ’ hours for day and 35 for night. 1 workers, payment for overtime instead of time off, and four weeks’ annual leave, are the principal claims be ! ng made this month by the Aust.alian Journalists’ Association. The,y are contained in the log served on proprietors to replace the metropolitan dailies’ award when it expires on May 23. The A.J.A. claims that the proprietors have raised a “legal technicality” to avoid restoring salaries to 1929 ’rates, “When concessions were granted by the A.J.A. during the depression, we were told that the proprietors were seeking only temporary relief, and that they could be trusted to do what, was right,” states the general secretary, Mr S. Pratt. “But the 1929 rates have not yet been restored.”
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Grey River Argus, 28 May 1938, Page 12
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