THE COAL STRIKE.
THE WHARF LABOURERS. A FIGHT PREDICTED. IPress As»ocJation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 5 p.m., Feb.'27th. SYDNEY, Feb. 27: At the Wharf Labourers' Union banquet, the secretary said, that they would soon be fighting their employers before the Wages Board. No doubi the latter would try and take away some of the little concessions they had granted, but he thought the men would.' be able to show the Board that they were deserving of a little more consideration in the way of pay. , ! The president congratulated tbe Union on the stand it had taken in the late trouble. As a result their position as a trades union was as good as that of any other organisation in tho country. He advocated a Wugei Board in preference to an Arbitration 1 Court.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14142, 28 February 1910, Page 5
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131THE COAL STRIKE. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14142, 28 February 1910, Page 5
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