CONCILIATION COUNCIL.
FARM AND STATION WOEKEES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, Nov. 22. A sitting of the Conciliation Council to-day considered a dispute raised by the Farm and Station Employees Union regarding wages, hours and other conditions of threshing mill hands. Some 200 farmers were individually cited. The sitting was marked by a conciliatory spirit. Some material differences were disposed of, and others were left to the Arbitration Court. The workers claimed 2s hourly and found, and an agreement was arrived at at Is 9d. It was agreed that the emlpoyers always treated the men fairly in respect of food supply. It was agreed one driver, jOne feeder or band-cutter, two bag-men, and four other hands should be employed on corn and straw stacks, provided there were additional stackmen where a stack was extra large. Three points held over for the Arbitration Court were in reference to cooks' wages, preference to unionists, and the rate of pay for ft I feeder or a band-cutter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1919, Page 4
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163CONCILIATION COUNCIL. Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1919, Page 4
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