GROCERY TRADE
MINOR AGREEMENT REACHED. WELLINGTON, March 9. When the Conciliation Council this morning resumed the hearing of the application by the workers in the grocery business for a Dominion award, Mr. F. D. Cornwell, advocate for the workers, raised the question of the 40-hour five-day week, which in turn brought up the related question of wages. The employees’ proposals on the 40-houi’ five-day week were not acceptable to the employers, any more than the employers’ proposals of a 41 hour five and a-half day week were acceptable to the workers, and neither side would accept the offer oi the other on w'ages.
There was agreement on a number of minor clauses. Those -outstanding besides wages and hours will also be referred to the Arbitration Court. s
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Grey River Argus, 11 March 1938, Page 9
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