Railway Workers Want £2 Week Rise
Press Associatton)
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AUCKLAND, July 16. A general" order increasing wages b£ £2 a week is wabtetl by t'lid' Otahnhii1 branch of the' Aihalgatnafed1 Society of Railw.ay Servants. The union 's deldgate said at a meeting of the Auckland' Trades Council last night that thd1 Ooiiti'cil decid'ed td* forward to* the Pederation df Labtiiir th'e Otahuhu request for a Royal Commission to investigatd prides, wages, pfdtlts, and standards;- also a reqnest that tlie* HoVdrnment meanwhile freeze' pricds. The Otalluhti deldg/te (Mr. L. Reid ); said liis uiiiori tli oiiglit tlife' tiiild had* eomd to peg priees add nnpdg iMJge& Workers had to wdrk overtirrid fo' at-' tain in a 60-hour week the sarii'd stan--dard of living they had on a fortyhour week,. before the wai'.* The workers' wdr'e living o'n* fhdif' sa'vitfgl. W-itM* drawals exeefeded deposits in both) the post office savings and national savings accountfc
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 July 1948, Page 4
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151Railway Workers Want £2 Week Rise Chronicle (Levin), 17 July 1948, Page 4
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