QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY.
AN OUTSPOKEN MINISTER. LIVING WAGES OR NO PROTECTION Press Association. -Telegraph.—Copyright. Received July ■’>, 9.28 a.m. BRISBANE. July 3. A further meeting of sugar-giowcrs requested the Don. F. G. Tudor, Federal Minister of Trade, to return iu the shape of bounty (lie whole of the it )ier ton Excise duty, instead of it 3 us at present. Mr Tudor asked if he did so would the men's demands, which seemed roasonalils, no granted' Voices: Not all of (hem. Mr Tudor; Then Hie request will not he granted. He also remarked that an industry that was not able to pay living wages to all concerned was not worth protecting to the extent of 50 per centum. He suggested a. conference of workers, growers, and manufacturers.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13417, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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126QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13417, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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