MINE WORKERS' PAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 14

MINE WORKERS' PAY.

NEW AGREEMENT SOUGHT.

RESTORATION OF CUTS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, this day.

A sitting of the Conciliation Council, presided over by Mr. P. Hally, conciliation commissioner, was opened in the borough chambers this morning to hear an application by the Ohinemuri Mines Battery Workers' Union for a new industrial agreement. The principal request was for an increase of 13 per cent in wages and contract rates, which includes the restoration of the 10 per cent cut made in June, 1931, plus 5 per cent. The application affects workers employed by the Wallu Company and the Golden Dawn Company (Owliaroa). Mr. J. Roberts, secretary of the Alliance of Labour, is presenting a case for the union which urges that the phenomenal appreciation of gold lias placed the goldmining industry particularly in respect of the Wailii Company, on such a favourable footing that the workers are entitled to restoration of the "cut" and an increase of 5 per cent additional. . . Tho assessors for the union are Air. A. Bico (secretary and workmen's inspector), Mr. E. Dye (president), Mr. H. Dwyer and Mr. W. Lynch (executive), and for the Wailii Company Mr. R. Milligan (New Zealand director), .Mi. H. W. Hopkins (superintendent), and Mr. J. L. Gilmour (mine manager). Mr. M. H. Wynyard represents the Golden Dawn Company. . . o , Similar applications by engineers and engine drivers associate! with the mining ircustry will follow. The sitting is cx;;e-:t.ed to last for at least three days.