THE COAL MINERS
AG-fiJSiaiENTS MADE WITU TWO COMPANIES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Westport, Juno 11. \ Tho We3tport Coal and Stockton Companies have made agreements with all tho employees' unions, the agreements to liavo currency until six months after the conclusion of tho war, with a maximum of three years. The agreements provide for an increase of 17i per cent, on pre-war rates to contract "men (coal hewers), and 20 per cent, to wages men, the existing workers' conditions to continue. Tho men are now working to a maximum outpnt, and as the harbour is ill splendid order, tho only drawback to a eteadily increasing coal export is the shortage of bottoms.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 4
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110THE COAL MINERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 4
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