HIGHER WAGES SOUGHT
PROPOSALS BY DRIVERS CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS [nv TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Thursday The hearing of an application by the New Zealand Federated Drivers and Related Trades' Industrial Association of Workers for a Dominion award was begun in the Conciliation Council at Wellington to-day. So far there is no agreement on wages, although the employers' assessors have before them amended proposals by the workers asking for a 10s increase all round, except in the case of graders, for whom an increase is asked. The present award rate of 15 per cent above the ordinary wage rates was agreed to in the case of casual workers. There is no agreement so far on hours and holidays. The Council will resume the hraarir.g to-morrow morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23002, 1 April 1938, Page 12
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124HIGHER WAGES SOUGHT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23002, 1 April 1938, Page 12
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