PROPOSED AWARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 10

PROPOSED AWARD.

FOR POWER BOARD EMPLOYEES. SUPPORT FROM PUKEKOHE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, Friday. At a meeting of employees of the Franklin Electric Power Hoard last evening, the proposed award concerning the • Auckland Industrial Electrical Workers' ] Union was discussed. After the award | had been read and considered at some ' length, a petition objecting to the award was the subject of lengthy deliberations. Various speakers placed their views before the meeting. The married men with families dependent upon them spoke with much feeling regarding the difficulty they experienced in keeping free from debt under the existing conditions and wages. The "diggers," the employees i who sink the holes I'oi: the poles, stressed i the unenviable conditions under which 1 [ they have had to work during the prosent abnormally wet season, and considered they were deserving of some consideration. The meeting came to the conclusion , that the men had nothing to lose, but' had a chance of gaining much if they came within the scope of the proposed award, and it was decided unanimously i in favour of the Franklin Electric Power Board being subject to the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.