LABOUR TROUBLE.
SYDNEY GAS EMPLOYEES.
A STRIKE.
INCREASED WAGES WANTED,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. February 28, 8 p.m.) Sydney, February 28. Tho employees of tho North Sydney Gas Company havo struck, demanding a shilling a day increase in wages. The 6triko is the outcome of tho refusal of the Arbitration Court to sit as a board to deal with tho application of the employees for one shilling a day increase on the lilll settlement', under wliich any increase by award enables tho companies under tho Gas Bill to pass it on to tho consumers, but wlioro obtained otherwise they are unable to pass it on.
Mr. Justice Heydon, in reiVsing tho application, expressed doubts as to whether tho Arbitration Court had jurisdiction to act as a Wages Board.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19130301.2.68
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
128LABOUR TROUBLE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in