SHIPPING LABOR BUREAU
should itHbe""]retained? I Oct. 23. | Mr Scnrle, of the Overseas Ship-; ping Representatives’ Association, in an interview, said that the Shipping Labor Bureau was established after the waterside strike of IDI7, when the Waterside Workers’ Federation refused to load munitions ships and transports, and tied up the work on ; the waterfront. The bureau was then ; organised as a means of carrying war ; supplies to the front. It had been ! maintained sir.ce as a means of on- j suring a reliable source of labor tor j loading and unloading vessels in the j Australian trade. Air Scnrle said that Mr Mills’ and ! Mr Ellis’ speeches cabled yesterday | were misstatements of facts. He said i the Commonwealth Arbitration Court awarded 2s lOd per hour, not 3s per hour for watersiders in casual employ. The Court estimated the casual workers would not average more than 30 ; hours a week, and fixed the fate to j cover a basic wage of £4 os. Bureau j workers received £4 11s for a forty- j four hour week, work or no work.—■ 1 TULA.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9848, 29 October 1924, Page 2
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