INDUSTRY AND WAGES.
By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Awocißtion. . . LONDON. Dec. 31. The > Transport Workers' Unfon has accepted the employers' offer of a Court of Inquiry for the investigation of the dockers' claim for 16s a day as the minimum wage. Tho' Court will consist of three employers, three. workers, and nn independent chairman. 1 It fs hoped thus to prevent a strike of 150,000 men. ! Sir R. S. Horrie, Minister for Labour,- and also tho Parliamentary Committee 'of, the■• Trade Union Congress, have - intervened in the ironmouWers' strike, and hopo to: reach a settlement. V ' ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1713, 2 January 1920, Page 5
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