WORK AND WAGES
THE MELBOURNE STRIKE. A PARTIAL SETTLEMENT. tßy Telegraph.— Press .Awn.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, June 17. The City Council has agreed ro the committee's proposal to pay engine-drivers an increase of ."/ti a day. This ends that portion of the strike affecting the electricity supply. The factory engine-drivers and gas workers are still out, though the prospects of a settlement tire regarded as encouraging. COUNCIL'S ENGINE DRIVERS AT WORK. MELBOURNE, June 18. 1 Received June IS, >u. t .i p.m.) The engine-drivers in the employ of die City Council have resumed work, assuring a supply of electric light to-night. INTERNATIONAL SEAMEN’S CONFERENCE. KH HIT-HOUR DAY AT SKA. GENOA, June IT. The Seamen's International Conference discussed the eight-hour day which was generally approved but there was considerable dissension over the proposed 4S-hour week. The British delegates demanded Sundays entirely off. The British and American delegates differed regarding the sailors’ right to leave a ship at any port.
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Southland Times, Issue 18853, 19 June 1920, Page 5
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156WORK AND WAGES Southland Times, Issue 18853, 19 June 1920, Page 5
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