CONCILIATION COUNCIL
OTAGO TIMBER YARDS AND SAWMILL WORKERS. A sitting of the Conciliation Council was held at Dunedin to-day, Mr W. H. Hagger (Commissioner), presiding. The business was to hoar the application of the Otago Timber Yards and Sawmills Industrial union of Workers for an increase in wages. .The unions proposals were for an increase in wages of about from 3d to 4d per hour for hourly wage men, and an increase of from 10s to 12s 6(1 for men employed on a weekly wage. The counterproposals of the employers provide for a slight advance on the present rates, which would be equal to about Id per hour all round. The assessors for the union were Messrs James Ruston, Walter Blackburn, and HiraiuMdunter. The assessors for the employers wore Messrs J. ;M. Benton, A. M'Lachlan, and A. S. Cookson. Ihe whole of the morning sitting was taken up bjua general discussion of the wages clauses. A settlement had not been arrived at up to a lute hour this afternoon.
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Evening Star, Issue 16677, 8 March 1918, Page 8
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