FREEZING DISPUTE SETTLED
CONCESSION AND CONCILIATION. A Gisborne message announces tho settlement of*' the dispute between tho Poverty Bay Farmers' Meat Company and the employees on satisfactory terms, the men to return to work to-day. The matter was amicably discussed, and the terms of are mutually satisfactory. The company conceded the men's request that as a minimum the lowest paid men should receive Is 9d and 6d bonus. In one section 'an increase of id "on the previous request was granted, making the wages 2s sd; in another section, where 2s 6d was asked, 2s 5d was fixed. The pieceworkers agreed to an 18 per cent, bonus, the rates to be retrospective to December 1, and the agreement stands till August 31, 1921. The other local freezing companies are not affected. The agreement means that about 120 men will start this morning at the Poverty Bay Company's works at Waipaoa.
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Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 9
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150FREEZING DISPUTE SETTLED Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 9
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