FREEZING WORKERS.
THE DISPUTE NOT SETTLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The conference between representatives of freezing companies and delegates from the Federated Unions of the. Employees was resumed to-day. On Wednesday evening the employers' representatives made an offer to the Union delegates of an increase of 7Vi per cent, in piece rates for those workers who are paid according to work done, and of 10 per cent, in wages of men paid by the hour or by the week. This offer was considered by the workers' representatives overnight, and this morning they announced that they could not accept it on behalf of their unions. The companies' representatives, after further consultation, said that they could not increase the offer. There the matter stands for the present. In effect the conference has ended without a settlement, but the door to a settlement, either through further negotiations or otherwise, is not absolutely closed,
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1920, Page 5
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152FREEZING WORKERS. Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1920, Page 5
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