RAILWAY MAKING.
<> NO FORTUNES FOR CONTRACTORS. By Telegraph—Press Afsocintion-Copyright Sydney, June !!. Mr. Grimth. Stale Minister for Public Works, speaking lit tin , Inrnins of tluv first sod of the. Jlunvcllbvcoli-Merriwa railway, made a uUitiMiirat vegardins the general policy of railway construction, k> far as it concerns labour. The Government, He saiil, was establishing direct employment instead.. o£ the contract system, because it believed it to be more economical. Under the contract system some of the wealthiest me:i in Australia had built lip fortunes which lviircicntcd tl\« ditVerence between the iiiouey tho peoiile iiaid for the. railways ami the cost of construction. He declared the success of day labour was threatened by contractors and a minority of labourers, who were desirous of getting all they could for as little labour as possible.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1457, 4 June 1912, Page 5
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130RAILWAY MAKING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1457, 4 June 1912, Page 5
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