HIGHER PAY ON WHARF
AUSTRALIAN NEWS CAUSES SURPRISE DISAPPOINTMENT AT HOME (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON. Tuesday. The news cabled from Australia that the pay of waterside workers had been increased by ljd an hour, and that the New South Wales Government had imposed a tax of 2 per cent, on the wages sheets for child endowment, has caused surprise in business circles, as these impositions will entail large increases in the costs of stevedoring to steamship companies. . . Disappointment is expressed that the visit of the shipping delegation was apparently futile, as far as securing reductions in the costs m Australia is concerned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 651, 1 May 1929, Page 9
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