PAINTERS DISPUTE SETTLED.
CONFERENCE AT PALMERSTON. [BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] Palmerstok North, Wednesday. The adjourned conference on the dispute initiated by the Palmereton North Painters and Decorators' Industrial Union of Workers was resumed before the Conciliation Board, and, contrary to expectation, the case was settled amicably. The chief difficult}' had been the union's demand for an allowance of Is. 6d per week for bicycles for each man. The union agreed to the deletion of all reference to bicycles, provided the clauses as to suburban work were allowed to stand. Iney also agreed to Is 3d per hour. Several employers wanted clause 8 amended by substituting Is per day extra for country work, instead of Is 6d, but after conferring with their representatives on the Board they decided not to press the point further.
The chairman then drew, up a memorandum setting forth that. both parties agreed to the claims as amended by the conference, and pledging them to have the Board's recommendation formally referred to the Arbitration Court to have the same made into an award.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13672, 13 February 1908, Page 6
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