THE PATEA DEADLOCK
PROVISIONAL SETTLEMENT. PROSPECTS OF DEFINITE AGREEMENT. To-day steamers, engaged in the Patea. trade have no labour trouble at either the Wellington end or the other. Labcur is available here and in Patea, pending the sitting of special arbitrators, whom it was decided yesterday to appoint, owing to the intercession of "Mr. ii. Fletcher (chairman cf the Harbour Board). Mr. Jackson, president of the 'New Zealand Workers' Federation, has been appointed to represent the men, and. thb employers havf* selected Mr. Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, to act for them. These two arbitrators will choose an umpire, and the decision of this tribunal is to be binding on both sides. The i only point in dispute this morning was in the matter of overtime in working general cargo, for which the PatearTnen ask 2s 6d an hour. The employers at Patea had already conceded the principle of preference to unionists on the basis observed at Lyttelton, ivhere tho union's entrance fee is ss. Mr. Pryor was out of town this morn- j ing. An effort was being made to get j in touch with him so that the final conlerence coidd tpke place to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 6
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199THE PATEA DEADLOCK Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 6
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