BACK TO WORK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 5

BACK TO WORK

AUCKLAND GLASS WORKERS’ DISPUTE. AN AGREEMENT REACHED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 3. Following an undertaking given at a conference of parties today, 150 glass workers, engaged at the factory of the Australian Glass Manufacturing Company, Ltd., in Penrose, will be recommended to return to their employment by union delegates tomorrow morning. Negotiations between the employers and the men proceeded this afternoon and, with the assistance of -Mr W. Slaughter, officer in charge of the Labour Department in Auckland, an agreement was reached. The decision to cease work was made by, the men because of dissatisfaction with the fixture the Court of Arbitration was prepared to give for the hearing of an application for . a new award. Being members of a different union, drivers employed by the company were not affected by the employees’ action, and, as the drawing of furnaces might cause weeks of delay in manufacturing, firemen were also not called out by the union.

The men again assembled at the works this morning and it was decided that, pending the conference to be held in the afternoon with the employers, they would adjourn until tomorrow: As a result the plant remained idle, although the dispute was confined to the same section of employees.