SUGAR WORKS DISPUTE
MEN NOT REINSTATED YET. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 23. Despite several developments since Saturday in the sugar workers' dispute, the men, have not yet been leinstated, and they are now. interesting themselves in securing payment until suoh time, as they return to work. They offered themselves in a body for work this morning, but had to content themselves with the knowledge that there will be no victimisation, and that they will be reinstated without exception. No forecast as to when they are likely to be re-employ-ed, however, was made,
The union secretary (Mr. J. Purtell) this morning sent a telegram to the president of the Board of Trade (the Hon. E. P. Lee) suggesting that the men should be paid full or par,t wages from this morning until they are nble to return to work; "If I can assure the men that they will be paid," continued the mes•sage, "they -will not seek other employment,"
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 283, 24 August 1920, Page 5
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159SUGAR WORKS DISPUTE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 283, 24 August 1920, Page 5
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