FERTILIZER PRICE MAY RISE
Application To Tribunal By Telegraph—Presfc Association. AUCKLAND, July 26. It is understood that, in the course of the successful negotiations between workers and employers, that brought to a close the strike at the chemical manure works at Te Papapa, Westfield and Otahuhu, the question of increasing the price of fertilizer to compensate for increased wages was discussed. Employers’ representatives considered that higher wages would necessitate a rise in the price of fertilizer, and it was agreed that application should be made on the subject to the Price Investigation Tribunal. When the strike was in its early stages it was announced by the union that the employers had tried to secure permission from the Government for an increase in the price of superphosphate from £3/16/- to £4 a ton. The union then did not agree with the necessity for the rise. It stated that the employers were prepared, if an increase of 4/- a ton were made, to consider favourably an Increase in wage rates of lid. an hour on the classification in the expired award. The increase then mentioned was subsequently agreed to by the employers.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 8
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