CANTERBURY POTTERY WORKERS
CLAIMS FOR MOW AWARD No agreement on llio chums of the Canterbury pollory workers [or a new award was reached in Conciliation Council yesterday, and the hearing was adjourned. The employees asked for a -10-hour five-day week, and wages ranging from 3s 3d an hour for insulator testers and throwers, and 3s Id an hour for setters, mould makers, and finishing burners, to 2s 9d for all other workers. The employers submitted as their counter-proposals the terms and conditions of the existing award, which they suggested should be for two years instead of one. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie) presided. The assessors for the respondent employers were New Zee kind Insulators, Ltd., Tcmuka, Timaru Potteries. Ltd., Timaru, and Luke Adams, Ltd., Christchurch for whom the assessors were Messrs H. R. Adams, J. E. Brortic. W. H. L. Leech, T. N. Lovalt, Mr H. F. Rutland acted as agent for the employers. The applicant union, tint Canterbury Builders’ and General Labourers’ and Related Workers’ Union, was represented by Mrs M. Lamb, Miss M.' B. Howard, Messrs E. C. Sullivan, and C. J. Chartcris. Mr P. M, Butler acted as agent for the employee*.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23810, 2 December 1942, Page 4
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