STRIKE PROMOTERS.
IT pays better to be a promoter of strikes than an unpaid striker. An Australian contemporary gives some interesting figures as to the remuneration of the members of the Council of Action of the Communist administration set up by all Australian Labour Conference a year ago. . Their salaries as union secretaries, organisers; and advocates range from £312 lo £634 per annum, with pickings in travelling expenses. Eleven members of the council collectively draw £5,000 a year from the workers who keep the strike promoter in comfort while they and their families do the starving during the strike. An agitator with a sure £6OO a year, wet or dry, can well afford to urge a unionist to tighten his belt and fight for freedom. , /'
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Franklin Times, Volume 10, Issue 797, 5 January 1923, Page 4
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125STRIKE PROMOTERS. Franklin Times, Volume 10, Issue 797, 5 January 1923, Page 4
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