SLAUGRTERMENS WAGES.
AN AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT. MEN RECEIVE AN INCREASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At the Conciliation rooms this morning, half-a-dozen assessors sat in friendly council Mid made an amicable agreement for the regulation of the working conditions of the slaughtermen. The ouestion of wages was very promptly settled, increases of 2s (id per hundred bein» granted for freezing sheep and lambs, and of '2s per hundred for potters and lambs. The former rate now rules at, £1 7s (id per hundred. There was no dispute as to working hours or overtime (the latter being assessed at time and a. quarter), proposals and counter-proposals being identical in this respect. The hours of work will be between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., eight hours a day, with ?. .Saturday halfholiday from midday. Other slaughtering than that at the. specified rate per~ hundred will be paid for per head. A I mutually satisfactory preference clause ! uas agreed unon, and it was- further I agreed that, all disputes should be referred to a conference of three delegates from each side.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5
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177SLAUGRTERMENS WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5
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