40-hour Week for Australian Coalminers
JUDGE’S CONDEMNATION OF OWNERS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 11.35 p.m. SYDNEY, June 29. Tho Federal Arbitration Court Judge Drake Brockman to-day awarded an oight-liour day and a flre-day week iu the coalmining industry. This means a reduction of about four hours weekly in the average working week. The Judge refused the union’s claim for a minimum wage but granted ten days’ holiday yearly on full pay. He blamed the mineowners for the uneconomic working of the mines which produced a deplorable number of unemployed, while the absence of unity among coalowners had resulted in the industrial exploitation of the surplus export trade and cut-throat competition.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 152, 30 June 1939, Page 6
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