THE DENNISTON TROUBLE.
Per Press Association. Westport, December 20. The present position at Deuniston is that the management have called upon the Union to observe the provisions of the Court’s award, offers of compromise (that have been refused) being now withdrawn. A simple arrangement regarding working hours has been mutually arranged at the Westport Coal Company’s second colliery at Granity. The men employed on the front shift commence work at 8 am and leave at 3 p.m. The back shift men start at 4 p.m. and discontinue at 11 p.m. Twenty minutes in each shaft is allowed as “crib” ;time, thus the actual hours of extra are 6 hours 41 minutes The time occupied in walking from the mine entrance to the working places varies considerably.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 20 December 1907, Page 5
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126THE DENNISTON TROUBLE. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 20 December 1907, Page 5
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