WAGES ON WATERFRONT.
LOWER RATES SOUGHT. | DISPUTE BEFORE THE COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. ; The hearing commenced to-day in the I Arbitration Court ’of- the dispute be- . tween the employers and the Wateri side Workers’ Unions of Greymouth, Timaru, Westport and Lyttelton. The employers had cited the unions in the dispute and asked for substantial reductions in the rates of pay and an important variation of working conditions. The employers are asking for a Dominion award and evidence has already been taken at Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Captain Gill, wharfinger at Westport for the Union Company, urged the necessity for continuous work at that port, the abolition of stop work meetings and minimum payment as for three hours on night shifts instead of four. He also considered the employers should have a say as to whether the men should work or not in wet weather. The hearing was adjourned till tomorrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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153WAGES ON WATERFRONT. Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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