MINING INDUSTRY
NEW SOUTH WALES AWARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, July 29. Under an award delivered today to cover the coal mining industry hours will remain at 40 a week for all underground workers. The hours of all others are 86 a fortnight. The wages of engine-drivers in New South Wales will be increased by 7s a week. The award prescribes a five-day week, but on one Saturday a fortnight employees may be required to work for six hours. The award sets up a net-work of conciliation committees with wide powers and with directions that stoppages of work shall not occur.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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102MINING INDUSTRY Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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