HIGHER WAGES WANTED
BY WOOL AND GRAIN STORE ' ■ - -MEN.' '
Claims for a new award have been filed by the employees in the Wellington wool, hide, and grain stores. The union is asking that casual workers shall be paid 2s 3d per hour, and permanent employees £4 15s per week, with 3d an hour extra for men engaged on hides, rabbit skins, and, seed cleaning. The union also proposes that men handling manures shall be paid 2s 7fd per hour, that permanent workers in oil stores shall receive £5 per week, and casual workers 2s 6i|d per hour. The employers offer' permanent hands a weekly wage of £3 2s 6d, casuals Is 6d per hour, and manure workers lid extra an hour while so employed. ' The hours proposed by both parties are the same, namely, 44 per week.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 12, 14 July 1922, Page 8
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137HIGHER WAGES WANTED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 12, 14 July 1922, Page 8
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