LABOURERS' CLAIMS.
CONCILIATION DISPUTE,
TWO DAYS' HEARING BEGUN. An eight-hour day and a five-day week, with wages ranging from £» to £6 10/, are demands made by the Auckland Builders, General and Other Labourers' Union which met representatives of the employers before the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. R. E. Price, to-day. Counter-proposals by the employers were for a 44-hour week and 2/ an hour. Representatives of the union at the meeting are Messrs. G. Green (president), T. Stanley (secretary), A. Lees and W. . Simmonds. On the. employers' side of the table are Messrs. W. 15. Anderson (secretary), W. Marshall, L. F. Faram, E. V. Sutherland, and J. E. Tidd. The claims of the union cover local body workers, builders' labourers, quarry workers, lime and cement workers, and coal and firewood workers. The claims are divided into seVen different classes. Most of the day was devoted to deciding the list of parties entitled to be covered by the award. It is expected that the hearing will last two days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 8
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