SUGAR STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1920, Page 5

SUGAR STRIKE.

THE MEN STILL IDtE. | A CRITICAL POSITION, ' • * , _"_; \ By Tele jrap&.—Press AisotUttoa. ■ i, Auckland, Last Night."- . The Chelsea sugar factory.iwag *etdjf| ,';' for the resumption of #flßinte ,ppt*%> trans to-day, but the mm declined to return to work. ' A' general meeting of the - Union was held during the afternoon to consider what the Union denned to be fresh developments which fcadj arisen out of the hearing of their cwej by the Arbitration Court yesterday, j A letter from Mr. Dallard, advisdryl accountant to the Board of Trade, #aa! read, in which he asked -the .w,9Tkerg to* resume operations'. A resolution affirming the men's deter-"' ruination not to return to work until the five points conceded by the Botrd, of Trade at the recent conference wWft' embodied in any award the Court mights! make, was carried. These concessions, provided for a Mhour week, conditionally upon the Output being sufficient to meet the company's contract with the Oovernmefct; also a minimum weekly wage of £4 »»; seven holidays yearly on full pay; offertime at time and a half for three hoUri and double thereafter; and retfospectiv* pay as from July 1. The secretary of the Unldn statu theft the position has now reached a critical stage. He considered the men were justified in holding out for fair and reasonable conditions, especially' ai the Government had been prepared to give them these conditions.