NINE SHILLINGS A DAY.
RAILWAYMEX AIR A GRIEVANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Falmcrston Xortli, Last Xight. There was nn indignation meeting of fifty or sixty railway employees at Palmerston station at mid-dav to-dav, protesting against the Government increasing their wages to £l3O instead of £133 as they claimed had been promised by the Premier and Mr. Millar, who said married men should receive not less than nine shilling per diem. Mr. Robert McXab bad been asked during the morning to ascertain information from Wellington, and reported to the meeting that the Bill had already passed the third reading, legislation was finished for the session, and the Railway Union Executive had expressed itself please'd with the contents o? tho Bill. To-night a meeting of the Palmcmon Branch of the Amalgamated Society passed a resolution of protest against the treatment of lower-paid men in the amended schedule of the Classification Act, which was opposed to the Budget statement that no man should receive less than nine shillings per diem. -
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 28 October 1911, Page 5
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166NINE SHILLINGS A DAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 28 October 1911, Page 5
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