MANY LABOUR DISPUTES
44 IN SIX- MONTHS LOSS OF WAGES £33,470 [BY XELEGHAI'It —OWN COKRESPONDENT] , r WELLINGTON, Wednesday. •• There were 44 industrial disputes in New- Zealand during the. six months' pnd'ed i Juno* 30, involving a loss .- of 29,160 working days and some £38,470 in wages, according to the latest monthly Abstract of-,Statistics. These figures represent increases on the figures for the corresponding period of 1938, when there, were 39 disputes,, involving .a loss of 12,796 working days and of £12,538 in wages. - 1 Of'the 44 industrial disputes during the first half of. this year, .10 were in the meat freezing,, involving 3307 workers, 18, m thq coal-mining industry, involving 4897' workers, one in land-transport, involving 2000 workers, and* five in " the • shipping and 'cargo working industries, involving 1055. workers.. ; , : . : • . ...,' - " :The greatest numhereof.working days lost "occurred ",i*h shipping arid cargo working, the total'lost in these industries being 20.468 'days, and the loss in wages, £23,529, or considerably more than half the grand totals in all disputes throughout the Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23481, 19 October 1939, Page 9
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