WATERSIDE WORKERS.
STOP WORK MEETING AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Jan. 6. Watersiders, to-day, at a stop-work meeting, had read resolutions adopted at the Dominion Conference' held in Napior. They included representation on the Harbor Boards with a view to eventual control of stevedoring and the inclusion of the Railway Department in future agreements, with preference to members of the Federation. The conference decided to ask for a flat-rate increase on existing rates at all portjj, sixpence an hour increase on all classes of work, treble overtime for Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, double rate for all overtime between R 'a.m. and 5 p.m. and a treble rate thereafter, When men work part of an hour a full hour is to be paid for at ordinary overtime rate. The conferonce decided to ask for an increase of sixpence an hour on present rates.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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145WATERSIDE WORKERS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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