FARM EMPLOYEES

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 125, 24 November 1919, Page 7

FARM EMPLOYEES

DISPUTE REGARDING WAGES

AND HOURS.

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PBEBS ABSOCIAT__.)

BLENHEIM, 22nd November. A sitting of the Conciliation Council was held to day to consider the dispute raised by the Farm _and Station Employees" Union regarding wages, hours, and other conditions of threshing millhands. Upwards of 200 fanners were individually cited, and the sitting was marked by the conciliatory spirit that' was shown. In some cases where a material difference existed a compromise was arrived at, while others were left to the Arbitration Court. The workers claimed 2s an hour and found, and the' agreement arrived at was Is 9d an hour.; It was conceded that the employers' always treated the men fairly well ii. respect to the food supply. It wis also1 agreed that one driver, one feeder or bandcutter, two bagmen, and four other hands be employed on corn and straw; stacks, provided that additional stacks men are employed where a stack is extralarge. In stook threshing, two men are to be employed, in the baghole, twoforking in the paddock, and the farmer is to find an extra man to fork, if required. -„ . V:; Three points held over for the Arbitra: tion Court were in reference to cooks* wages, preference to unionists, and the rate of pay for feeders or! bandcut'ters..