WICKER AWARD
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CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The h§aring of a Dominion dispute between the wicker workers and their employees was begun in the Conciliation Council to-day with Mr M. J. Reardon, Commissioner, presidiog? Both parties proposed a forty-hour week but there was a wide divergence in the wages propOsals and daims for the employment of youths. These points were unsettled when the council adjourned until to-morrow. The employees ciaimed a wage of £6 a week and the employers proposed an hourly rate of 2s 3d which with the 40hour week would amount to £4 10s neither party conceding anything from these figures. The Commissioner said he did not think oither side had been quite reasonable. The employers ciaimed the right "to employ youths at certain simple work but the employees held that a contract of apprenticeship was necessary-. The employment of youths is complicated by the position at the New Zealand Missionary College at Longburn conducted by the Seventh Day Adven-, tist Church where wicker work is donei 'by boys in part payment of fees. Tho college seeks special provisions. \
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 10
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187WICKER AWARD Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 10
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