THE FREEZING WORKERS.
NEW AWARD SOUGHT. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ' .WELLINGTON, Nov. t '24. The Arbitration Court is hearing the New Zealand Freezing "Workers’ dispute. The claims of the Union are generally for the restoration pf conditions prior to the 1921 award, before the reduction in wages came after the slump. Ihe rates of pay sought for slaughtermen are £1 19s 6d per hundred -for sheep and £1 17s for lambs. Cattle are £2 7s, pigs from Is 3d to Is per head. Other wages for assistants, etc., are claimed on a- similar scale. Overtime is claimed at the rate of time and a half for the- first four hours, and double time thereafter. There are also the question of the hours of chambermen, with a fixed time for the breakfast hour an da minimum rate for assistants. For the union it was pointed out that the award in 1921 was made under 'conditions of severe depression in the pastoral industry.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 November 1924, Page 7
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161THE FREEZING WORKERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 November 1924, Page 7
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