AN AGREEMENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 41, 27 November 1937, Page 5

AN AGREEMENT.

CHAFFCUTTERS AND BALERS. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Complete agreement was reached in Conciliation Council yesterday in the dispute between the Canterbury Agricultural and pastoralists’ - Industrial Union of Workers and the North Canterbury Threshing Alill Owners’ Industrial Union of Employers. The agreement closely followed, the previous award, except for a slight increase in, wages. The award will be in operatioh from December 1 next to September 30, 1939. The Conciliation Commissioner (Air S. Ritchie) presided. The workers claimed that the hours of work should he between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., except on Saturdays, when the hours of work would he between 7 a.m. and noon. No worker should work by moonlight or artificial light except in cases of emergency when 15 minutes might be allowed to finish a set. The hours of work asked by the employers were from 6 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. The rates of pay claimed a ton, with the employers’ counter proposals in parenthesis, were as follows: —Oat sheaf, driver Is 6d (Is); feeder, Is 5d (lid); other men, Is 4d (lOd). The rates of pay for straw were twice the oat sheaf rates. The union claimed that the term of the award should be one year and the employers two years. The new rates of pay are now as follows: —Drivers Is 2d, feeders Is Id, and other men Is a ton.