NOBBLING THE RAILWAY-MEN.
The announcement was made with a flourish: *of trumpets towards the close of the recent session of Parliament that tlno wages of the railwaymen were to be increased by about £7O 000 per year. This looked like a v&vy daring attempt to pacify the railway , workers and to nobble them for the ' coming polls. Evidently, however, the increa.se is a very small tiling, representing 2Jd per day, and this to married mem only. The Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Workers thinks this "an itifiutt, and a disgrace to the Dominion.'-' Poorer MSIor 1 He is going to have a heavy row to hoe between mow and Decemiber 7th.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10470, 7 November 1911, Page 4
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114NOBBLING THE RAILWAY-MEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10470, 7 November 1911, Page 4
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