LABOUR MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 4

LABOUR MATTERS.

>■ , , ; rf -. ! i 6CHJTBLAND -FREEZING^ -WORKERS;. ( [BT TEIiEGBjiPH.-T-PBESS ASSC^OU-TR?!?.] t' INVI!RCARGiLL/sth February. ""*" ' The Sduthlanti' Freezing Works Union lias adopted an agreement come to between the delegates of that body and representatives of the freezing com T panics in conference recently. ■ The hew agreement provides for an increase of wages to Is 3d per hour ordinary time, and Is 5d overtime, with' double time on Christmas Day. and Good Friday, time and a half oa Sundays, " Easter Monday, Princ.e of Wales's Birthday, Sovereign's Birthday, Labour Dai% and Anniversary Day. Prefeien^a is given to unionists. PROPOSED AMALGAMATION. DUNEDIJf, s£h February. ' 'At a conference of cjejegates from 'the chemical manure workers, shearers, musierers, and Milton' farm labourers' unions to-day, £25 was guaranteed' as %he- nucleus of -a fund .fco. faring abquj; the- amalgamation of,, the 'wliole 1 of 'Ul^, Otago, and Southland agripultuyal and, farm labourers unions arid kindred .unions into oiie federation, with, the dbject of pplitical Representation so as- to secure the admihiatration ef the labour laws as they stikhd on the statute Book, SHEARERS' DISPUTE. PALMERSTON N., Uh -Feb.Another clause of -importance suggestjed by • the farmers at the l'ecent conierence, and accepted by the shearers exempts members of a farmer's family from the award, so that they can shear $s at present.