BRITISH BUILDING TIRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 19 May 1924, Page 5

BRITISH BUILDING TIRADE.

BY CAiiLB- PRESS ASSGGIATION-COFYEIGHT

I LONDON, May 16. lhe building irade operatives' exeeutivo has decided to submit a ballot ensbody.mg the ne» terms by the employers, with a recommendation of acceptance. The oftev is an immediate increase of a halfpenny per hour until statutory revision next- January, when the employers are willing to stabilise i wages twopence an hoas in grade AI towns, with a subsequent- reduction of < a halfpenny per hour for every drop of eleven points in the cost of living index figure.