FIVE-DAY WEEK.
COAL-MINERS MAKE REQUEST, (Per Press Association.) GREYAIOUTH, Sept. 1. The secretary (Mr A. AlcLagaii) states that the National Council of the United Aline Workers has requested the Coal Owners’ Association to institute a five-day 40-hour week in the coal industry as from September 1 Coalhewers have worked a five-day week for years, so that only shiftmen, truckers and other day wage workers are affected. The Miners’ Council is also seeking the restoration by the coalowners of the weekly computation of the minimum wage in the West Coast district, pointing out that the owners immediately imposed the 10 per cent, reduction when the Arbitration Court order was made, but nothing like the same alacrity in- restoring the 1931 wages level, the owners generally having to be compelled to give full restoration. The Alinister of Labour has assured the miners’ representatives that the Finance Act -provides for the restoration of the. weekly make up or minimum. The owners have been similarly advised but have not yet followed the lead of the Alines Department, which has restored the weekly make up at the State mines.
The Waikato disputes are being discussed this week at a conference in Huntly, while the Miners’ Council and owners are discussing the Denniston trucking dispute.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 275, 2 September 1936, Page 3
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