TAUPIRI COAL MINE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 166, 30 November 1912, Page 2

TAUPIRI COAL MINE.

i | AGREEMENT WITH WORKERS. j By Telegraph—Press Association. I' Auckland, Friday. An agreement between the Taiipiri Coal Mines Company and the Huntlv Coal Mine Employees' Industrial Union j of Workers (the new union formed under the Arbitration Act, as distinguished from the union affiliated to the labour Federation) has been adopted, as the result of proceedings before the Conciliation Board. The agreement provides fQr an average increase of wages of about 6d per day per man. The most important clause relates to the preference to unionists. It provides that if the company hereafter engages an 14 worker vlio not a member of the union, and who within one week after the engagement does not become and remain a member j of the union, the company shall dismiss j if requested by the union, lrurthei, the company slinll, when requested by the union, consider the advisibility of dismissing ;;iiv worker now employed by the company," if after fourteen days from the service of a notice such worker does not .become a member of union. The u.iion undertakes to do all in its power to prevent any strikes and undertakes to refrain from assisting and abetting or m any vav promoting any strike _ Tf any strike occurs, in respect of which a secret ballot has not, been taken by the consent of two-thirds of the members, the union shall pay to the company £SO, each and every dav such strike continues.