WAGES OF GOLD MINERS
CONFERENCE AT WAIH! NEW AGREEMENT SOUGHT [bv TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] WAIHI, "Wednesday A conference between; representatives of district miner owners; and the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries Union was opened this afternoon with the object of arriving at a new industrial agreement to replace the agreement which recently expired. The conference is being held in camera. The demands of the workers were not mado public, but it is understood that the union's representatives are asking for an increase of approximately one shilling a day on the rf tes fixed by the 1931 agreement and that the wages of members of the union omployed by the Golden Dawn Company, which carries on operations at Owharoa, be raised to the level of those paid by the Waihi Gold Mining Company.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22098, 2 May 1935, Page 10
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