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81- Rise For Barriet
Workers
SYDNEY, jrarrfi 13.
All Broken Hill work
ers, with the exception
of butchers who already
receive it, were today
pranted .V a week in
crease on the present
allowance of 34/ -a week.
Conciliation Commissioner
W. F. Read ordered the in
crease to be incorporated in
the agreements now held be
tween employers and the
Barrier Industrial Council.
A dispute over the non
payment of the 8/ a week in
crease to hotel employes
threatened to dislocate the
industrial and commercial
life of Broken Hill two wekse
ago.
The dislocation threat was
withdrawn on both sides
when a compulsory1 confer
ence was arranged before Mr.
Read in Sydney last week.
Mr. Read, in his judgment,
said the Broken Hill wage
rate was computed by way of
the basic wage, margins and
town allowance. :
The latter had been fixed
at 34/ in 1949, but now the
Barrier Industrial Council
claimed it should be in
creased to £2 2/, which local
butchers were already re
ceiving.
Employers disagreed on the
matter.
He said that, in the cir
cumstances, he was satisfied
that increase of the town
allowance by an additional
B/. was justified.
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