COACH WORKERS
PARTIAL AGREEMENT ON
NEW AWARD
Agreement on most of the machinery clauses was reached by the Conciliation Council which today concluded its discussions on the terms of a proposed award for coachbuilders and motor bodybuilders, but the principal issues oi hours and wages, the employment of females, junior helpers, and improvers, and the conditions of lead buff workers and arc welders, will be argued before the Court ol Arbitration. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. M. J. Reardon) presided over the meeting, which began on Tuesday and continued yesterday.-Mr. T. O. Bishop was the advocate for the employers and Mr, N. V. Douglas led the workers' assessors. It was agreed that the award should apply to the whole of the Dominion except for Otago, Southland, and Marlborough, and that it should continue for one year from the time it is made. Mr. P, B, Page, and other workers' assessors, made a plea for extra pay for lead buff workers until it became possible to eliminate from their work the danger of lead poisoning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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173COACH WORKERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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