ENGINEERING DISPUTE
NO AGREEMENT REACHED. ' Wellington, Oct. 29. No agreement was reached by the Conciliation Council on Saturday in regard to the engineering dispute. Expressing regret that the negotiations had failed for the present, Mr Bishop, the employers’ advocate, said that the only thing for the parties to do was to continue as best they could without an award. In most districts satisfactory agreements had been entered into, although some trouble had occurred in Wellington. The work was there if the men wanted it. A deadlock resulted when the employees refused to waive the proposal to insert in the new award a clause classifying workers into various sections of the industry and preventing a member of one section from doing work in another section. The employers claimed that this would raise manufacturing costs in the Dominion, instancing the vital factor that wages played on all standing costs.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 271, 31 October 1932, Page 10
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