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CHAINS AT BELFAST BAN ON TRANSFER MEN OF THIRD UNIT (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Work will be resumed to-day at Bbrthwicks Belfast works. Agreement to do so was reached yesterday morning and later in the day the chairman of the disputes committee, Mr. S. Ritchie, announced his finding that the third chain which the company proposed to establish was a separate unit and that men from the existing chains could not be transferred to it. This ruling, the chairman explained prevented men employed on the additional chain sharing in the pool earned by the existing two chains. The contention by the company when it advised its intention to introduce the third chain was that six men employed last season as extras on the first two chains should be employed so that reliefs should be available at any time from No. 1 and No. 2 chains, which employed 35 men each.
“The decision of the committee,” said Mr. Ritchie, “does not dispose of the question of spare workers, who are necessary for the efficient working of the industry, but that matter is being discussed by the parties concerned.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20124, 19 December 1939, Page 4
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