WORK AND WAGES.
[Special to the Stab.]
WELLINGTON, November 25.
The Wellington Coach Workers' Industrial Union demand £3 a week minimum wage for competent workmen, with less for incompetent, and forty-seven hoars to constitute a week's work. . Boys to be indentured apprentices for five years; the proportiou of boys to be one to every three mei employed on body-making, etc.; and one apprentice and two laborers to every three journeymen in the smithy department. The members of the union to have prefetence over non-unionists. The proposals will be submitted to the Conciliation Board.
The half-yearly meeting of the Trades and Labor Council of Otago was held on Thursday night; Mr B. C. Wilson (president) in the chair. The half-yearly balance-sheet and the secretary's report, showing that both numerically and financially the Council were in the best position they had been in sioee their organisation tea years ago, were read and adopted.
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Evening Star, Issue 11099, 27 November 1899, Page 1
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