INDUSTRIAL TRUCE
MR. PRIME'S PROPOSAL REQUEST TO UNIONS (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHEISTCHURCH, This Day. "If we get our demands," said one oi the union assessors in the Gas Workers' dispute before the Conciliation Council yesterday, "we will be prepared to makg the term of the award five years." "Any union on earth that got all it wanted-, would be prepared to do so," said Mr. Prime, the employers' agent, "but such an agreement would not be a truce. It would be an imposition." At a later stage Mr. Prime, referring to his statement earlier in tho week regarding wages, said that the truce said there was no idea of asking the unions to prejudice themselves by agreeing not to apply for a now award for a definite long period. What was suggested was that when the awards had been brought into line with the latest pronouncement of the Court in September, 1925, the unions should refrain from applying for a new award unless there arose unforeseen circumstances or abnormal conditions that would make an application for a new award reasonable.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 8
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184INDUSTRIAL TRUCE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 8
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