SATURDAY WORK.
LYTTELTON WATERSIDERS. BACK PAY DISTRIBUTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The Lyttelton watersiders, having complied with the request of the shipping employers to work on Saturday afternoons, to-day collected their back pay at the rate of ljd extra per hour for a period of 35 weeks. The retrospective pay, amounting to between £4000 and £5000, was paid out from the central pay office. This pay really consists of the extra 1 id per hour rise conceded to other watersiders throughout the Dominion. The men at Lyttelton, until about six weeks ago, had refused to work on Saturday • afternoons. p_ Individual sums rgceived bv the men j Tanged from over £9 to a few shillings.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 12
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116SATURDAY WORK. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 12
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