INDUSTRIAL STRIFE
HALF-YEAR'S RECORD
TOTAL OF 44 DISPUTES
No fewer than 44 industrial disputes occurred' in New Zealand .during the six months ended June 30 last,' involving a loss of 29,160 working days and approximately £33,472 in wages, states the monthly Abstract of Statistics. These figures represent considerable increases on the figures for the corresponding period of 1938, when there were 39 disputes, involving a loss of 12,796 working days and of £12,538 in wages.
Of the 44 industrial disputes during the first half of this year, 10 were in the meat freezing industry, involving 3307 workers, 18 in the coal-mining industry, involving 4897 workers, one in land transport, involving 2000 workers, and five in the shipping and cargo working industries, .involving 1055 workers. The greatest number of working days lost occurred, in shipping and cargo working, the tdtal lost in these industries being 20,468 days, and the loss in wages £23,529, or considerably more than ; half the grand totals in all disputes throughout the Dominion.
vice Commissioner), S. T. Barnett (supervisor of staff training, Public Service Commissioner's Office), and PMarshall and' S. Roberts (inspectors. Public Service Commissioner's Office).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 11
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189INDUSTRIAL STRIFE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 11
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