Wellington Woollen Company.
(Per Press Association). Wellington, August 28. The Wellington Woollen Company have decided <o make a reduction in wages or an increase of hours, and the employees have been given until Ist proximo to decide whether they will accept a reduction of 10 per cent, or work nine hours per diem, instead of eight as at present. The weavers are to be put on whatever is found to be the footing of similar workera in other mills. The hands in other woollen mills in the colony are working nine hours and receiving the same amount of remuneration as the employees of the Wellington Woollen Mill Company are now getting for eight.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 54, 29 August 1894, Page 3
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113Wellington Woollen Company. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 54, 29 August 1894, Page 3
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