PLASTERERS' CLAIMS
DOMINION AWARD MAIN ISSUES FOR COURT e (TVr Pri'ss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The hearing of th'e application of the New Zealand Plasterers’ Industrial Association of Workers for a new Dominion award was resumed in Lie Conciliation Council in Wellington yesterday, but little progress was made, the main clauses being referred to the Court of Arbitration.
No agreement could be come to on the question of wages. The union
asked for a minimum of 3s 3d an hour for journeymen plasterers ancl the employers offered 2s lOJcl an hour. The wages, overtime, holiday, country work and suburban work clauses were referred to the court.
The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. M. j. Reardon, at the close of the proceedings at 5.20 p.m., said it had been a disappointing day. He had expected better progress would have been made.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 15
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