NEW SOUTH WALES MINERS' DEPUTE.
• :: — • Award of the Arbitration Cpurt Press Association. —^Telegraph. — Copyright , Received December ;10.17; 10.17 a.m. SYDNEY,' 'December 4. In a xH s P u te between the southern colliery owners and miners the Arbitration Court has*ma'de an. f award, of t a give-and-take character ; pay to -be pn a sliding ' scale, based on the- hewing rate 'of 2s 6d per ton > when the selling" price , is 9s. In the event of a reduction 1 of employes, the principle that the, last r ,to», come shall be the first to go is insisted 1 upon, though owners strongly sought to have a discretionary rather than a mechanical rule. ■•The eight hours demand was. not , conceded. » , " ' i \ r
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10815, 4 December 1902, Page 6
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120NEW SOUTH WALES MINERS' DEPUTE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10815, 4 December 1902, Page 6
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