WORK TO STOP.
DISPUTE UNSETTLED. SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Last-minute efforts to avert the sttimiage of work at Lysaght s Newcastle works have failed and the men s ]4 days’ notice takes effect on Mon least 700 pieceworkers are direct]v affected and 700 others have been notified hy the management that there 'u*ill be no work until further notice. A message on January 11 statedA wages dispute has arisen at s large galvanised-iron works at Newcastle, resulting in the Iromvorkeis Federation serving two weeks’ notice or intention to strike by. the whole or the employees. The trouble originated in a new award prepared bv Mr Justice Cantor of the Industrial Commission prior to Christmas. The men declare that in many instances they are now much worse rff, losing from .Os to 40s per' pay, due largely to the method of calculating piecework rates.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 7
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142WORK TO STOP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 7
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