CASUAL LABOUR.
CONDEMNED BY JUDGE. SYDNEY, July T 9. Mr Justice Beeb.v, in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day. condemned casual labour on the waterfront during the hearing of a claim by the Ship Painters and Dockers’ Union for a new award. His Honour said there was nothing worse in any community than casual labour. A man who had no place in society but just wandered about hawking his labour by the hour was in an unenviable position. He pointed out that there was a small group of ship painters and dockers earning a little over 60s a week, the next group 40.5, and the last group under 40s. The remedy seemed to he to limit the number of men scrambling for jobs and throw the responsibility upon the State of finding work for the surplus. Mr Justice Beobv mentioned tho case of wharf workers in Brisbane a few years ago. when at least 1400 men competing for work were eventuallv reduced in number to 700, with the result that all were earning £4 a week and were permanently employed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 198, 20 July 1935, Page 7
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