SPREAD FEARED.
ORAKEI WORKERS’ STRIKE ABORTIVE NEGOTIATIONS SUB-CONTRACTORS AFFECTED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. After three days’ negotiations, no settlement has been reached in the strike of carpenters engage'd in the erection of State houses at Orakei it is now feared that the strike will* involve all workers employed on the contract by (he Fletcher Construction Company and its sub-contractors with Ihe exception of apprentices, watchmen and a few hands at the Penrose factory. A number of bricklayers and bricklayers’ labourers resumed work this morning but there is only sufficient work to keep them employed a few days. Root’ tilers are stlil working but only two roofs are' to be completed. The total number of men engaged on the job at Orakei is 275 and at the joinery factory and mill at Penrose, 90. Sub-contractors for plumbing, plastering and tile laying, etc., number 92. “If a settlement Is not reached speedily nobody will be at work on the job after the present week,” said Mr W. Fletcher, principal of the contracting firm this morning. “If the slrike had not occurred 31 houses would have been completed in a month from the date the slrike commenced.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 8
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