NO SETTLEMENT
WEST COAST MILLING DISPUTE. (Special to tfce "Guardian.") GREYMOUTH, March 14. There is no change in the position regarding the wages question between the sawmillers and their employees. The latter are holding out for a minimum of 12s Bcl a day, and the millers are holding to lis 6d. The overhead expense at the mill being the same whether the mill is producing in hundreds or thousapds of feet of sawn timber, to-day conditions are trade have placed mill on the hundred mark. In one large mill on the Coast the output has decreased from 750,000 superficial feet a month to 280,000. The overhead expense remains unaltered. The mills cannot cut red pine at .the .'/iked by the union owing to the poor demand. The millers state it is not possible to pay a minimum wage of even 10s a day and make a profit cutting red pine. ■The millers are definite, from opinions expressed at a meeting to-day that the only result to be expected from insistence by the union on the 12s Sd minimum will be the closing of the mills.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 131, 15 March 1933, Page 6
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185NO SETTLEMENT Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 131, 15 March 1933, Page 6
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