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WELLINGTON IRON WORKERS' PLAN TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT CONCILIATION COUNCIL CASE WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A shorter working week, with the object of spreading the work among more men, thus assisting toward a solution of the unemployed problem, was sought by the iron-workers of New Zealand, who discussed a case with the Ironmasters' Federation before the Commissioner, Mr. P. Halby, in the Conciliation Couneil to-day. The unions are asking a 35-hours' week instead of 44 hours, and generally a higher scale of wages was submitted. The masters' counter proposals are that the working hours should be 8£ per day and four on Saturdays, and, further, that the employers should not be compelled to pay overtime unless tbe number of hours stipulated were exceeded.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 December 1931, Page 5
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