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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1917, Page 4

Employers are grantly concerned over the situation, as cho waterside agreement introduces an element of dissatisfaction which will not snb■de while there is a domaud for men at 1/LO per hour at unskilled, or almost unskilled work. Before the higher rases were secured by the watersiders, it was oft <n pointed out as a glaring auornaly of the iudimlriai position that watergiders working on a shipa“ ecrae ocmpnr&tiveiy unskilled occupation were in receipt of 6d to 8d an hoar mere than ihe skilled men alongside them, working under awards of the Aib!tratiem Court. Now the anomaly is even greater. Waterside work ia casual, and the yiars earning of tradesmen ere, as a rule, higher, but daring theso exceptional times the unskilled man has the advantage in pay, and herein lies germ of what will ptovoke : sanoua industrial discontent unless a happy solution is soon found.