FROM BEHIND THE "BAR."
DEMAND FOR- HIGHER WAGES AND SHORTER HOURS. By Telecraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, December 29. Tiie Federated Barmen and Barmaids of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia hstve filed a claim in the Arbitration Court demanding an increase in wages and shorter hours. Tho present minimum wages- are:— Barmen, £2 os.; barmaids, £! . Tho l'edoration now demands a minimum of £3, with equal pay for men and women for equal work, a forty-eight hours' week in straight shifts of not more than nine hours daily, as against the present sixty and seventy hours weekly in broken shifts It is anticipated that ip the event of tho demands being granted, there will be a considerable insrease in the >rice of liquors. .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 5
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123FROM BEHIND THE "BAR." Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 5
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