SUPPLY OF SUGAR.
OUTPUT NOT MAINTAINED. 44-HOUR WEEK FAILS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Hon. E. P. Lee, replying to a request for retrospective pay to the sugar works’ employees, states that the >output has not been maintained at 14.000 tons in a 44-hour week as the workers representatives contended could be done, the weekly output ranging from 91 tons in September to 1225 tons in December. The Minister states the sugar workers hours and wages are considerably higher than was 'reckoned when the prices of sugar were fixed, and he therefore regrets he is unable to recommend th6‘ granting of the’ workers’ request, but he urges them to co-operate in efforts to iacrease the .output?
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 5
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118SUPPLY OF SUGAR. Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 5
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