CASUAL LABOR PROBLEM
JUDGE DENOUNCES SYSTEM SUGGESTION OF REMEDY iElec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, July 19. Judge Boeby, in the Federal Arbitration Court, ‘ to-day condemned casual labor on the waterfront, during the hearing of a claim by the Ship Painters and Dockers’ Union for a new- award. He said there was nothing worse in any community than casual labor. A man who had no place in society, but just wandered , about hawking his iabor by the hour, was in an unenviable position. He pointed out that there were a small group of ship painters and dockers earning a little over GOs a week; the next group earned 40s and the last group under 40s. The remedy seemed to be to limit the number of men scrambling for jobs and throw- the responsibility upon the State of finding work for the surplus. Judge Beeby mentioned the case of the wharf workers in Brisbane a few ago,, when at least 1400 men, competing for work, were eventually reduced in number to 700, with the result that all were earning £4 a week and were permanently employed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 5
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