THE BAKERS' DISPUTE.
AWARD OF ARBITRATION COURT. BY TWLBOKAPIC —PBBSS AS.SOJUTCOS./) WELLINGTON, May 28. The Arbitration Court delivered its award to-day in the bakers' dispute. Special provisions are contained in the award with regard to the Hawke's Bay Provincial District which were agreed on between the Union and the representatives of the Napier and Hastings employers. The hours of work in the City of Wellintgon, which includes the area within a radius of five miles l'rom the Chief Post Office in the City, have been left at fifty-one hours, as in the last award, and the wages of the several classes of workers have been increased by 3s per week. In all other parts of the industrial district the hours of work have been reduced to 48 hours per week, but the wages have not been increased. This reduction in hours was arueed to by the Napier and Hastings employ ers, but was resisted by the employers in Wanganui and Palmerston North.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9101, 29 May 1908, Page 5
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162THE BAKERS' DISPUTE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9101, 29 May 1908, Page 5
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