CEMENT IN BAGS.
T7HARF_ LABOURERS REFUSE TO • ;;■■; handle'it: "■;";-; H- :; 'ATTITUDE OF N.S.W. GOVERNMENT. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyrtent i. ... Sydney, April 27. The wharf labourers turned, 'down a conciliatory suggestion .by Mr. W. M. Hughes, Federal'* Attorney-General and Acting-Primo Minister, regarding the handling of cament in'bags. Mr. Carm'ifihael, State Assistant Minister to the Treasury, afterwards declared that his Government had one duty to perform—that isj to see that where a body of men .refuse certain work they shall not prevent others from doing so. A recent cablegram stated that 300 men were out of work at the Portland Cement worts owing to the Sydney wharf labourers refusing to handle bagged cement, od the ground that the dust was injunons to health, though the company was providing special paper-lined bags and offering to increase the pay to Is. 6d. per hour. . :
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 5
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138CEMENT IN BAGS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 5
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