The constitution agreed to make provision for eight Industrial Departments, designated as follows:
- Mining Department;
- Pastoral and Agricultural Department;
- Transportation Department;
- Construction Department;
- Distributing Department;
- Printing and Journalistic Department;
- Public Service Department.
Under the separate headings each Department made provision for embracing the following workers:—
Industrial Department—To include all wage workers engaged in and about mines, batteries, smelters, etc.
Pastoral and Agricultural Department.—To include shearers, musterers, shepherds, drovers, cooks, farm labourers, dairymen, butter factory workers, meat workers, market gardeners, fishermen, flaxmill workers, butchers, refrigerator workers, etc.
Transportation Department.—To include waterside workers, tramwaymen, seamen, all carters except those permanently engaged in food distribution, railwaymen, etc., etc.
Construction Department.—All workers engaged in building trades, in producing bricks, lime, cement, bush workers, sawmill workers, plane, mill, sash and door factory workers, structural ironworkers, shipwrights, electricians engaged in wiring or installing light in buildings, signwriters, painters and decorators, railway, bridge and road workers, etc.
Distribution Department.—To include all workers engaged in the distribution of commodities, warehousemen, shop assistants, carters, etc.
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