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Article : 122 wordsLord Penrbyn gave a holiday to his 4000 Welsh quarrymen on Coronation Day and on investiture Day together With an addition of 5 per cent to their wages. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn N.S.W. industrial Court Judges Heydon decided that so long as the Colonial Sugar Refining Company paid its men who were carpentering at the river mills a minimum wage of £2 ...
Article : 59 wordsSeventy navvies employed at Wallal, tear Charleville, Central Queensland, in connection with the construction of the Great Western railway struck last week for an increase of ...
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Article : 272 wordsAfter several sittings the special board appointed under the Shops and Fastories Act to fix the minimum ate of wages to be paid to watch and clock makers in Melbourne arrived ...
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Article : 98 words"The Globe" is cheap indead Only five shillings per year post free from the office 136 Castlereagh-street, Sydney: 1/1 per quarter or one penny per copy from any newsagent to ...
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Globe (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1914), Wed 19 Jul 1911, Page 6
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