WAR AND INDUSTRY.
HALF-TIME SCHEME. •Sydney. Sept. 14. The United Labourers’ Pn .ectiv? Society has ent'*.'. 1 •'reng protest against the action authorities in fdacing all labourers employed on Government jobs on half-time. At a meeting of the society, it was pointed out that tiie organisation is against the dividing up of work in the Works Department, until such time as the Government deems it advisable to reduce the salaries of all Stale servants from the Governor downwards, and until the Government is prepared to legislate for the workers by repealing the ’ Landlords and Tenants' Act.” anil to regulate the price of commodities to meet the situation.
?.Ir. Arthur Vernon, secretary of the society, states that, owing to the gasworks ami othei" large institutions working at reduced pressure, there was a good deal of unemplovmeut and distress among the labourers. Iml never at any tim? had he wished lo infer, as had been stated- that the men were willing to wotk merely for their rations.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 238, 22 September 1914, Page 6
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