MINERS’ AGREEMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2097, 2 March 1920, Page 2

MINERS’ AGREEMENT.

KTKKP HlSId IK WALKS. Wellington, Yesterday. The coal miners’ agreement has been ratilled and the full (ex! pub-Y' lished. The terms of the national:’ agreement are to be embodied In.ftll'Y local agreements, and the’- oihdfY' terms are to lie settled between the individual unions and the companies and the settlements registered under the Arbitration Ael. The minimum wage is Vis, and shift and piece workers receive at) per cent, on the pre-war rates, and day workers (it) per cent., except in (ho ease of shift-men, who receive- , a (Itil rale of I.Bs a shift. The rales are not, to he amended during 1 lie currency of t.lie agreement, which is for one year. There will he twopence a ton in addition to (ho ordinary hewing rates for (wo shift mines, and Is (id extra for yardage.- in double- shift places. Day shifl men are to receive (id extra on afternoon and night shifts. Not mure than six pail’s of miners shall he employed on the Mni’d shift, except in an emergency. Threepence extra per ton •'’hall be paid for three shift places., All rails are to be laid by the com-' panics, which ad,so undertake to supply explosives at the present prices. , All trucking is to be done by the company, tint: may die done by emit tract. Christie Bros., Taralu, Nightcaps, Warning and the Jubilee mines are excepted from but the owners are requested to use' flj their influence to bring them info line. The hours of work I'eniain th’o ■ same. Christmas a,nd New Year holidays are from the 21th December to the 4th. Janmiify. ’ .District and National Disputes • Committees are constituted, and it is expressly provided that no strike, lock-out, go-slow, or unnecessary’:, stoppage shall take place till the" matter has been referred to the National Committee,, the decision of 1 which is to be binding.