LONDON DOCK LABOURERS.
EFFECT OF HIGH PAY. By Telegraph—press Assn.—Copyright. (Received June 8, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. A contributor to the Labour press states that, as a sequel to the dockers’ award, granting them 16s a day, ah army of youthful unskilled men. lured by the pay, are quitting the land, workshops and factories for the docks, throwing thousands of experienced clderlv dockers out of work. Tlie latter bitterly complain that the fruits of their hard-fought battles for trade union solidarity and better conditions are being filched by the youthful in-vaders.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16759, 8 June 1920, Page 3
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94LONDON DOCK LABOURERS. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16759, 8 June 1920, Page 3
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