A PROHIBITIVE AWARD.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DU2JEDIN, Friday. Partly as the result of the recent award in the engineering trade, and partly owing to the slack season, a number of men 'employed in the agricultural department of Messrs. Reid and Gray's implement works -were discharged this week. It appears that previous to the award, which came into force on Monday, the wages paid were 8/, 0/, and 10/ per day, whSe the award provides for the uniform rate of 11/. The firm could not pay tne rate awarded, and about a dozen men have been discharged. Their discharge necessitated the paying oft of seven others. A member of the firm named said 1 the award affected Otago and Southland only, and provided for a higher rate than was paid'in Christcharch, where the rates were 7/ and S/ per day, tne result being tha-t the firm was unable to compete with manufacturers elsewhere. As stocks are fairly large, it would' have been necessary, apart from the award, to pay ufi seme of the men-
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 7
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173A PROHIBITIVE AWARD. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 7
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