WORK AND WAGES.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press 'Association.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, December 29. Shipowners have definitely refused to discuss the Wages Board. I At Manchester the operative cottpnspinners have decided to withdraw from the Brooklands agreement. At Southampton the Seamen’s and Firemen’s wages have been increased by the White Star Co. by 10s pei month. HUGE LABOUR COMBINE. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, December 30. Now that the ballot on the proposed amalgamation of the Australian Workers’ Union (the largest organisation of workers in the Commonwealth) with a number of other country unions, has been carried by a very substantial . majority, proposals are afoot to widen its scope to include not only any person engaged in pastoral work, but also those employed in sugar growing, in the meat trade, in road mending, and in a number ol others of all kinds of general labour.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 30 December 1912, Page 8
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