IRON MILLS
'" HOURS ARRANGED ,
"The application of the Otago Iron Rolling Mills Co., Ltd., for an extension of hours for'mill hands to 44 per weekSvas not opposed in tha Arbitration Court this morning, a letter being received from the union agreeing""to a 44-hour; five-day week.
M^. 'H. J. Bishop appeared for the applicant- company and said that the owners- alid workers had met '• and reached an agreement. He asked for an order" tor'a 44-hour week, to be worked on the first five days of the week,''for mill'hands, and said that the company did not oppose the application of the union) for a 40-hour, fiveday^ week for the general labourers employed. To enable the 44-hour .week to be worked on five days an extension heyond eight hours per day and beyond five hours without an interval for a meal would be necessary. The mill hands, he said, were prepared to work' as at present,- a nine-hour shift including meal time. "• His Honour Mr. Justice Page said that an, order-would be made accordingly.1 ■ > '. ' • \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 4
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171IRON MILLS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 4
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