TROUBLE BREWING
a boot trade award. _____ . (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) J (Red 12.45 a.m.) '■ . j SYDNEY, April 10. Aroublle is -bxewinff ArT**the boot trade. Johnstone, secretary of the boot- ■ trade council, resigned as a protest against the 1 recent wages board award, which allowed employment of women on sMrving machines. The Union claims that the work can be done by apprentices, and there is therefore no need to employ fem-'ale labour, and threatens to' call out employees of fLr-rns Avho persist in carrying the award into effect.
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Grey River Argus, 11 April 1911, Page 6
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87TROUBLE BREWING Grey River Argus, 11 April 1911, Page 6
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