CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE
COMPLETE AGREEMENT REACHED (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the adjourned meeting of the Conciliation Council to consider the dispute between the New Zealand Federated Builders’ and Contractors’ Association and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, complete agreement was reached, the principal question settled being that of wages, 2s an hour being fixed iii the case of journeymen, and Is 5d an hour in the case of improvers. The employers agreed to pay double rates for Sundays and holidays, and in the case of ordinary overtime, time and a quarter for the first four hours, and time and a half thereafter. Several other questions were also settled. The agreement will ,be operative for a period of one year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 4
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122CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 4
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