ENGINE DRIVERS’ WAGES
INCREASE DATES BACK LONG HOURS OF WORK. The increase wages to engine-drivers, firemen and cleaners reported in yesterday’s “Times,” and published in the “Gazette” are retrospective to April Ist, 1924. J , From well-intormed circles yesterday a “Times” representative gathered that an engine-driver quite recently took over £9 in overtime for a fortnight in addition to wages. The informant saw the wages docket, and expressed the opinion that the fact that an enginedriver worked such long hours constituted a real source of danger on the railways, as a man could not keep mentally and physically fit whefi working such long hours.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12163, 13 June 1925, Page 4
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103ENGINE DRIVERS’ WAGES New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12163, 13 June 1925, Page 4
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