STARTLING STATEMENT.
LABOR DISPUTE,
ALLEGED TO BE RUINING IRON AND BRASS MOULDERS’ TRADE.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wellington, last night. Tho Conciliation Board continued its hearing of tho iton and brass moulders’ dispute to-day. The employers intimated that “ owing to the noil-conciliatory attitude of the Union they would withdraw from tho concessions agreed to on the previous day.” Mr Booth, manufacturer of agricultural machinery, Christchurch, said that tho decreasing hours of labor and the increasing wages would help the trade on tho downward grade along which it had already started. Competition from America was now a very real and important factor and was daily becoming keener.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 186, 14 August 1901, Page 2
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