N.S.W. COAL MINES
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT. OWNERS MAKE AN OFFER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received April 27, 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 27. The terms offered to the miners by the coal-owners include the restoration of front and back shifts, the abolition of the cavilling system or a twelve months’ cavil, that machines be used in pillar work when required, that if the management desires employees to work six days each week that the hours of surface workers be calculated exclusive of meal times, those of underground and contract men from the time the last man descends until the first ascends in each shift, that the distribution of coal free or below selling price to householders be discontinued- Only six recognised holidays yearly are to be observed. Hours back on Saturdays will be raised rrom six to eight. The conference at which this offer was made has adjourned to allow the miners’ representatives to place it before the miners’ lodges. The conference will resume at an early date, when the miners’ attitude will be disclosed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11195, 28 April 1922, Page 8
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