WATERSIDERS' AWARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 5

WATERSIDERS' AWARD.

SENSATION IN SHIPPING CIRCLES. 'By Electric Telegraph—Copyright l [United Press Association.] (Received 9.35 a.m.) Sydney, April 17. The new Federal watersiders' award caused a sensation in shipping circles. It is estimated that the incerase in wages in Sydney alone will be £130,000 per year. Shipowners have not attempted to disguise the fact that the public will have to pay this.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram this afternoon states: The representatives of shipping admit that the new rates of pay for waterside work at Australian and Tasmanian ports, as fixed by Justice Higgins at Melbourne, will seriously affect all inter-colonial shipping. It will also affect in. a loss degree, the Oversea steamers engaged in the service with the Commonwealth. The new award carries a' substantial increase in the pay of the waterside workers at Commonwealth ports, and the effect of the new award must, it is believed, come home to the public in a direct way. It is impossible just now to estimate the actual increase which must be imposed on freights and fares, but it is certain the rates will be adjusted in proportion to the extra outlay.