Conciliation Board.
BUILDERS ASKING FOR AN INCREASE. ...
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Auckland, last night. The Conciliation Board met to-day to consider a dispute in the building trade. The award under which the trade had been working for the last 18 months expired in December last. The men are now asking for an increase in wages from Is 2d to Is 4d per hour on the grounds that the cost of living has increased, and that the wages should be brought into line with those ruling in the same trade in the Southern cities. Upon most of the Qther points, both sides agree, The Board resumes to-da7,
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 31, 6 February 1901, Page 2
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