£35,000 Wages Lost

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1914, Page 5

£35,000 Wages Lost

TO TILE STRIKING BUTCHERS. r/'TH SIDES SATISFIED. A HAPPY POSITION-. By C.JM—Press Association—Copyright IV:civcd ft, 12.50 a.m Sydney, March 8. I is estimated that the striking but(U i- lost .C.'1."),0u0 in vwges. Received S. 5.5 p.m. Sydney, March 7. p. the butchers' shops are opening to Von-ow, Both sides claim a victory, the masters morally, and the'men because they secured a reduction in hours from fifty-six to forty-nine and a-luK. SATISFACTORY AGREEMENTS. MEN RETURN TO WORK. . Sydney, March 7. The strike settlement has been signed by the Premier and the employers. It provides that work shall be resumed forthwith on the rates of pay existing on February 1. Variation of the existing award has been referred to an expedited sitting of the board. The appeal now before the board as to whether the working liours shall be 49 or 50 has been settled forthwith on the basis of 49'/ 2 hours. There is to be no victimisation on either I side. The union pledges itself to refer i all future disputes to an industrial tribunal without cessation of work. Failure to absorb all labor immediately will not he regarded as a breach of faith on the part of the employers. The settlement applies to all the allied trades. Melbourne, March 7. The agreement between the master butchers and men has been signed and will operate from April 9.