SHIPPING DISPUTE.
. WATERSIDERS’ WAGES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Oct. 28, 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 28. Mr Searle, a member of the Overseas Shipping Representatives’ Association, in an interview, said the Shipping Labour Bureau was established after the waterside strike of 1917, when the Waterside Workers’ Federation refused to load munition ships and transports, and tied up the work on the waterfront. The bureau was then organised as a means of carrying war supplies to the front. It has been maintained since as a means of ensuring a reliable source of labour for loading and unloading vessels in the Australian trade. Mr Searle said Messrs Mills’ and Ellis’ speeches (cabled yesterday) were misstatements of facts, and said the Commonwealth Arbitration Court awarded 2s lOd an hour, not 3s an hour, for watersiders in casual employ. The Court estimated that casual workers would not average more than thirty hours a week and fixed the rate to cover the basic wage at £3 os per week. Bureau workers received £4 11s for a 44-hour week, work or no work.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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176SHIPPING DISPUTE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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