PRICE OF COAL RISING.
Increase In Workers’ Wages.
Press Association —Copyright. Auckland, March 13. Complete agreement was reached to-day between members of the Ne ' Z. aland Coalmine Owners Association and the New Zealand Miners Federation, who agreed upon a 5 per cent, increase in all day wages rates plus alterations in. o irtain working conditions and machinery clauses of the.previous agreement. These terms apply to all mines in New ■ Zealand, including State min s. At the cloee of the conference Mr C. C. Davis, Christchurch, said llm-t,
as a result, all lav. ter paid workers in the mines would receive increases in pay. T3ie owners expected the uQ most co-operation from the miners and were pleased to have the assurance of the men’s .representatives that it would be given and that friction 1 , annoyance and irritation tactics would be obviated. He w?s afraid it was inevitable, in nna.ny instances, that the concessions granted would mean a ri.se in the price of coal.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 7
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162PRICE OF COAL RISING. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 7
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