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N.S.W. Labourers
Receive
Marginal Rises
SYDNEY, Friday.— Lab
ourers throughout New South
Wales were to-day granted a
28 per cent, increase in their
wage margins.
The new margins were
agreed upon by the Austra
lian Workers' Union and em
ployers at a hearing before
the president of the Industrial
Commission, Mr. Justice
Taylor.
A union official said all
labourers other than builders'
labourers would get the in
creases.
He said most workers
would get increases between
10/- to £1, bringing their
margins to between £1/10/
and £2.
The workers who get the
increases are covered by the
Labourers' General (State)
Award, the A.W.U's major
non-rural award.
Two other union awards
were also altered to give
workers a 28 per cent, mar
gins increase—the Quarries
(State) Award and the Plant
Operators on Construction
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