The deadlock between the contractors for the Tawa Flat tunnel and their workmen, concerning conditions and rates of pay, still continues. After the last abortive conference, the contractors declared that if the men did not accept their offers by the end of the year thev would man the tunnel with independent workers and recommence operations 011 Tuesday. Sir Cook, general secretary of the *ew Zealand Workers’ Union, stated that his uifion had not been further approached by the contractors, and the union intended 10 make no further move in the meantime. Work was not restarted at the tunnel yesterday..
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19280105.2.70.2
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 20, 5 January 1928, Page 6
Word Count
99Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 20, 5 January 1928, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in