WAGES TRUCE.
A FURTHER REFERENCE. ' ; lf we get our demands," said one of the Union's assessors in the gas workers' dispute before the Conciliation Council yesterday, "we will be prepared to make the term of the award five years.
"Any union -on earth that got all it wanted would be prepared to do so," said Mr W. Cecil Prime, the employers' agent, "but such an agreement would not be a truce, it would be an imposition 1" i At a later stage, Mr Prime, referring to his statement earlier in the week regarding a wages' truce, said there was no idea .of asking the unions to prejudice themselves by agreeing not to apply for a new award for a : definite, lengthy period. What was suggested- was that when awards had been brought into line with the latest pronouncement of the Court on September 19*25. unions should refrain from applying for a new award unless there arise unforeseen circumstances, or abnormal conditions that would make an application for a new award reasonable.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19213, 20 January 1928, Page 7
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