WAIKATO MINERS' AGREEMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 December 1913, Page 5

WAIKATO MINERS' AGREEMENT

AUCKLAND, Dec, 24. . The agreement between the' Taupiri Company and the Huntly miners provides that the union undertakes not to cancel its registration "under the Arbitration Act. The union shall expel any member who becomes connected with the Federation of Labor or any similar body; in default the company may dismiss him without notice! Provision is made for a fortnight's notice on either side, but employees may be instantly dismissed for inciting workers to disregajd the provisions of any clause of the agreement or the Industrial Arbiti-ation Act. The union shall not assist: in any strike till after, a secret ballot by a four-fifths V majority, six weeks'- notice being subsequently given to the company. A penalty of £50 a day is provided: The* company undertakes not, unnecessarily to cease work, and to pay; £50; a'day: to the union during lock-outs.