CARPENTERS' WAGES.
AGREEMENT REACHED. fPHISS ASSOCIATION TBLKGJIAII.I WELLINGTON. December 13. Adjourned from November 30th in order that the employees' representatives might submit the employers' latest offer to their unions, a meeting of the Conciliation Council was held today to consider further the dispute between the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors' Industrial Association of Employers. Mr W. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner, presided. A completo agreement was reached after deliberations which lasted all day, the principal question settled being that of wages, 2s an hour being fixed in the case of journeymen and Is 5d an hour in the case of improvers. The employers agreed to pay double rates for Sundays and holidays, and, in the case of ordinary overtime, time and a quarter for the first four hours, and time and a half thereafter. Several other questions wore also settled. The agreement is for a period of one year.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20729, 14 December 1932, Page 16
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