OVERNIGHT CABLES.
LONDON, Star IS Dissatisfaction among t-lie workers at Wembley was expressed at a representative meeting of attendant*, stall and guide sellers and refreshment employees. A Trade Union Congress subcommittee reported that fair wages and employment conditions had not been insisted upon in contracts. It was resolved to send a deputation to the Government demanding a forty-eight hour week and a minimum wage. SYDNEY, May 19. A meeting of miners from the Pclawmain. Richmond Main. Stanford and Merthyr, collieries decided that, unless they received satisfaction by the end of June regarding the installing of electric safety lamps in the mines, they would urge that coal production throughout Australia should cease until they obtained satisfaction. The meeting urged the central council of the Workers’ Industrial Union to immediately convene aggregate meetings throughout the Commonwealth to endorse the decision.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17354, 20 May 1924, Page 11
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138OVERNIGHT CABLES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17354, 20 May 1924, Page 11
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