PLUMBERS' DISPUTE
WAGES OBSTACLE
(By Telepraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. . The adjourned hearing of the plumbers' dispute was resumed in ths Conciliation Council today, but there was no indication of an agreement being reached on the wages question.' Mr. H. Thompson, V for the unions, said that the employees, considered tho employers had not shown a conciliatory spirit. "All the conditions wo havo fought for and won," he said, "are to bo lost. Tho cuts in wages and overtime are too great to meet the increased cost of living." Mr. D. I. Macdonald' replied that the employers had stated, they were prepared to refer the wages question to tho Arbitration Court, but they could not do so unless the employees stated definitely what they would agree ■ to.: The employers had given way considerably oil their original proposals, and it was his opinion that they were 'the fairest offers that had been made by any group of employers. On a majority vote, it was decided, that, provided the amended employers' demands and other points are agreed to by the union, the wages clause'be referred to the Arbitration Court.
Mr. T. P. Pain has been appointed ■Registrar of Births and Deaths t /o:£ Maoris'at Palmcrston North.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1933, Page 8
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204PLUMBERS' DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1933, Page 8
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