TIMBER TRADE DISPUTE
AUCKLAND. 2nd February. The Conciliation Council, under the presidency of Commissioner T. Harle Giles, to-day considered an industrial dispute in which a- good deal of interest is | being manifested. The pailies are the I Timhei Workers' Union (which has a membership of 1400) and the sawmillcrs of the province, about 150 of whom were cited. Tlip union, in its demands, asked for substantial incioases in wages, averaging well o\cr 2s per day, and amounting in some cases to 3s a clay ; for a forty-four lion c week, and for preference to unionists,. ..'■lliys gMipJo^c|s iu^^ir counte^cluitua
stipulated for. if, anything, a reduction in the rates prevailing in the present award, for. longer working hours than at present proscribed, and strongly opposed the proposal for preference. It was eventually decided that, before actually proceeding with the dispute itself, the council should visit some of the leading timber centres in the province and take evidence concerning local conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 2
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159TIMBER TRADE DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 2
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