BUILDING WORKERS
THE WELLINGTON HOLDUP DECISION REAFFIRMED. DISSATISFACTION WITH AWARDS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.-) WELLINGTON, This Day. About 200 men, comprising carpenters. roofers, tilers steel workers and labourers engaged on the Fletcher Construction Company’s housing work at the Sunshine Estate and at Karori, attended a meeting in the Trades Hall this morning to consider the position arising from the decision- to cease work yesterday afternoon. The decision was reaffirmed and it was further resolved to hold a mass meeting of building trades workers in the Town Hall tomorrow. Dissatisfaction with the awards recently issued for carpenters and labourers, apart from the working conditions at Karori, is stated to be the underlying cause of the cessation of work, and it is understood that similar action is likely to be taken by building trade workers in other parts of the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 6
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138BUILDING WORKERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 6
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