WELLINGTON GAS COMPANY.
TROUBLE WITH WQRKEKS. By Telegraph—Press Association Wellington, July '5. The Wellington Ons Company announces Hint it will he unable to'guarantee a regular supply of gas after Sunday ,next. , The .[position in ilue to. the staff of its retort-house at-Miramar. hawing left, after giving fourteen days' notice. The company states that a year ago it granted the men, a substantial ] increase in wages, despite the fact that they were being paid a war ihonus, and j since then they Have been enjoying the. highest wages paid for similar work in any part of New Zealand, if not in the world, the average being £4 .1s Bcl per week. " • : i Tlie men recently 'made a demand' for j more wages, equal to an IS percent, j rise, and. it is alleged,' threatened to j leave the work to look after itself.(in- | less the demand was complied with.. | . The company points out that if fur- B ther wages were granted there would be j no alternative but to increase the.price S of gas. An effort is being made to en- 9 gage a new staff. 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1917, Page 2
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186WELLINGTON GAS COMPANY. Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1917, Page 2
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