THE SAWMILLERS’ DISPUTE.
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- Invercargill, May 27. The mutual agreement entered into by the Sawmill Society and the employers under which a week’s work is a 48 hours minimum; wages—a breast bench sawyer who keeps two saws and top saw, 10s 6d a day; one saw, 10s; no saw, 9s; big bench sawyers who keep bottom and top saw 1 ,9 s6d; no saw, 9s ; middle bench tailor put, 9s; third bench, 8s; big bench, 8s ; first-class machinists who make'their own knives-and irons, 10s ; second class, 9s; third-class certificated engineer required to do other work, 9s; second-class, 8s; drivers of locomotives whilst driving, 10s ; bushmen, shoemen, trollymen, and 9s ; tramwaymon, 8s ; unskilled laborers, 7s 6d ; boys sixteen years of age, 3s 6d ; an advance of Is per day for every year over sixteen years, yardmen and bullock drivers £lO per month, paid for holidays before the Bth of the month, preference to union men if they are as suitable as non-union,
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 May 1901, Page 4
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163THE SAWMILLERS’ DISPUTE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 May 1901, Page 4
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