FARM STRIKE ENDING.
AGREEMENT ARRIVED AT. MINIMXJM OF 25/- A WEEK. LIMIT OF FIFTY HOURS. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 20. The mediators. Mr. Harry Oerman, president, of the Farmers' Union, and Mr. (losling, M.P., have reached a provisional agreement in connection with the Norfolk farm strike. I'nder this 25/ | weekly shall be paid on a guaranteed _obour week, plus lid hourly to 54 hours. and overtime rates thereafter. 'Work must be arranged to provide a weekly half holiday. Tie* Cheshire Conciliation Committee divided to continue till September the minimum of :\2/ for a nt-hour week. The fanners have become less intractable since the announcement was made of reductions in l be rating on agriculture, ills,) that, they would be the chief beneficiaries in "cuts" in goods rate- to the extent of C 0,1100.000 annually, which (he railway companies decided to-day would become operative on May 1. The Leader of the Labour party in (be House of ('ominous, Mr J. Ramsay MacDonald. wns largely responsible for bringing tlie two parties together for the discussion of terms.- (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 21 April 1923, Page 7
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