MEN ON PUBLIC WORKS

Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 11

MEN ON PUBLIC WORKS

DISPUTE AT MANGERE AERODROME TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT REACHED [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 27. In an address to the men involved in the dispute over rates of pay at the Mangere aerodrome improvement works the statement was made by Mr F. E. Lark (secretary of the Auckland Provincial Unemployed Workers’ Association) that while he was in Wellington last week the Minister of Public Works (Mr R. Semple) had promised that within a month an agreement would be reached- fixing the minimum wage for men employed on public works at 14s 8d per day. Following Mr Lark’s address and after a lengthy conference with the Public Works Department’s representatives, the dispute at the aerodrome "was temporarily settled. The men returned to work under protest for a period of one month on Mr Lark’s assurance that Mr Semple fully understood the position. It was further stipulated that a conference was to be called shortly to draft an agreement governing conditions and rates of pay on public works in future. The men were informed that the Minister of Employment would visit Auckland at the end of the week, when their case would be presented to him.