AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS.
MUN SEEK BIG INCREASE IN PAY. 12,000 EMPLOYEES AFFECTED. Claims were submitted to Sir. John Quick, in t'he Federal Arbitration Court, by the New South Wales brajich of the Australian Railway Uniqu, affecting 150 grades and 12,000 employees. It was contended for. the union .that higher margins should be paid fol' responsibility a,nd for skill, and also tq allay the industrial unrest which prevailed in that State. In many instances' the increased margins asked for were considerable. In one grade the claim was made from Is to 8s Bd, and in another from 6d to 6s 9d’. It was considered that the, cost Would run into ananfy thousands. When 'it was urged by Mr R. Blanch, for the Railway Commissioners, that the. Court had previqusly adjudicated oni many of the claims and that there did not appear, to be any justification for. re-opening- the matter, sir John Quick poiinted out that'the Court had been more firmly established by recent legtelaton.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5322, 5 September 1928, Page 4
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162AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5322, 5 September 1928, Page 4
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