GASWORKS DISPUTE
Approach To Company Mr M. W. Rhodes, secretary of the Canterbury Gasworkers’ Union, plans to take retort workers’ demands for higher wages to Mr L. S. Watson, the secretary of the Christchurch Gas, Coal, and Coke Company. Ltd., today.
“I’ve written to them and I’ll see Mr Watson tomorrow.” said Mr Rhodes last evening. “The whole thing hinges on those men down at 'the stokehouse. It depends on what the company’s offer is—if they’re prepared to meet us and make a better one.”
The company’s present offer of hourly wage increases of 3d and 4d has been refused by the union, which wants a general increase of Is an hour. A strike has been threatened if agreement is not reached in 14 days.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30171, 1 July 1963, Page 12
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