FAVOURS FOR WORKERS.
NEW SOUTH WALES STATE. RESTORING 44-HOUR WEEK. (Received November 7. 10.-15 p.m.) • SYDNEY. Nov. 7. Tho New South Wales Minister of Labour, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, has informed union secretaries that tho new Government intends to pay tho full basic wage to all relief workers and will insist upon preference lo unionists. Also it will provide full rations for all unmarried unemployed workers. Tho Government has remitted all tho fines imposed upon persons convicted of lawlessness on the coalfields during tho protracted strike. It reported also that tho Government intends to reintroduce tho 44-hour week in all industries whero it was in force previously.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 11
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