WORK AND WAGES.
FLOURMILLERS' DISPUTE. CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. The award in the Arbitration Court in regard to the Flourmillers' dispute will be made after the hearing of evidence in the millers' dispute at Dunedin. CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. The fellmongers' dispute' was commenced before the Arbitration Court this morning. The union pointed out that the award given in August, 1901, applied to the joint Tiusiaess of tanners and fellmongers, but only one 'paragraph 'to fellmongers pure and simple. They requested that the clause fixing the price of men's unskilled labor at 104 d per hour and referring to the employment of youths be extended to fellmongers. After discussion the suggestion was adopted, with the provision that men employed in out and drying wool. should receive not less than. 7£d per hour. The entire conditions of the trade will be gone into fcy tbe Court at the expiration of the present award in August next.
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Evening Star, Issue 11892, 21 May 1903, Page 6
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153WORK AND WAGES. Evening Star, Issue 11892, 21 May 1903, Page 6
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