FARM WORKERS
ir Teksir- I !— ttoii Aiinoliilloii' Blenheim, Novemijer 22. The Conciliation . Council to-day con j fiidered the dispute raised by tho Farm and Station Employees' Union regarding wages, hours, and other conditions for thrashimr mill hands. Some 200 farmers were individually cited. Tho sitting was marked by a conciliatory spirit, and some material differences were composed, while others wero left to tho Arbitration Court. The workers claim 3s. an hour and found, and an agreement wiis arrived at on tho basis of Is. 9d. It was agreed that the employers had always treated the inon'fairly in respect to tho food supply. It was agreed that one driver, one feeder or bandcuttcr, two bagmen, and four other hands should bo employed on corn and straw stacks, provided that thero were additional slacltiiien where Ihe ntnek was extra large. 'In etook lh rash ing two men 'are to- be employed at the baghole. and two in tho forking paddock, tho farmer to iind an extra man In fork if required. The tarec! poinls held over for the ArbitraI (in Com I wore, in reference to cooks' wages, preference to unionist, and tho rate of pay for the feedet or bandoutter.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19191124.2.39
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
199FARM WORKERS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in