Drivers Threaten Miners' Plans
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Miners’ plans to work on alternate Saturdays to build up coal stocks for industrial use during their three weeks Christmas holiday are threatened by the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen’s Association, which has told the Joint Coal Board that it will not agree to Saturday work unless adjustments are made in the wage increases recently granted to mineworkers. Enginedrivers are key workers in the mining industry and Saturday work will be impossible without them. They are discontented because in the recent wage increases men receiving a margin of over 15/- had been granted an increase of 3/6 daily, while those under that margin only received 3/-. .
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Northern Advocate, 2 September 1947, Page 5
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