STOPPAGE OF WORK
DISPUTE AT FOXTON. OVER DIFFERENCES IN PAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., April 27. Some 300 workers in the flax and woolpack industries at Foxton ceased work today as the result of a dispute over differences in pay in respect of two scutching machines which the workers claim do identical work. The attitude of the workers was stated at stopwork meetings. It was explained that the dispute over rates of pay had been in progress since August last, the management of N.Z. Woolpacks and Textiles Ltd., insisting that one machine was an “opener” and claiming the right to pay the men at an hourly rate instead of piecework rates as for scutchers. The workers, on the other hand, were of the opinion that the two machines were identical.
A stopwork meeting set up a committee to approach the management with a request for piecework pay till the dispute was settled and it was decided that all work be suspended till a satisfactory agreement was reached. At a second stopwork meeting, however, the committee reported that the management had refused to meet them. A further meeting of the workers will be held tomorrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 2
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195STOPPAGE OF WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 2
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