STRIKERS OUTCLASSED BY VOLUNTEER LABOUR.
Sydney, Sept. 25. statement issued to-day by the shipowners says not only is volunteer labour replacing strikers on the wharves, but it is outclassing them. The object-lesson of 1017 is being repeated on the Australian waterfront. Volunteers, in ever-increasing numbers, are clearing the congested shipping and restoring overseas and inter-State commerce and a speedy return to normal is assured.
The efficiency of the volunteers has been noted at Melbourne, Newcastle, Brisbane, and Adelaide. Working under Award provisions, which guard the men stringently against overstrain, amateur gangs are loading from 50 to 100 per cent, more than the professional watcrsiders did formerly. In the case of one steamer, loaded by public-spir-ited volunteers, it had been arranged, judging the loading by the old rate, to cany on all day and possibly into the night. The new men, however, cleaned up the whole job by mid-day. A continuance of such honest effort in return for the high wages paid for this class of work, it is contended, inevitably brings benefit to all sections of the community.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3850, 27 September 1928, Page 2
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178STRIKERS OUTCLASSED BY VOLUNTEER LABOUR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3850, 27 September 1928, Page 2
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