THE LATEST.
A COMPOSITORS' AGITATION,
TAXATION IN TASMANIA,
(UNITED PBESS ABSOCIATION.) Received June 2, 12.45 p.m. Melbourne, July 2. The Printers' Society have given a week's notice to the employers that unless their demands are acceded to they will go on strike. They ask that the stab rate shall be increased to three pounds per week, and wages for piece work to one shilling and two pence per thousand.
Hobabt, July 2. The proposal to impose a land tax has been carried. The Treasurer announced that, if all the taxation proposals of the Government were not^agreed to, an appeal would be made to the country.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXIV, Issue 139, 2 July 1888, Page 2
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