CONCILIATION IN WAIMATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10241, 2 September 1909, Page 4

CONCILIATION IN WAIMATE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Mr Trisgs (Conciliation Commissioner) visited Waimatc yesterday to hoar the dispute between the Laborers' Union and the South Canterbury mill-owners. The owners were represented by Messrs Scannell, Grcig, and G. Campbell, while Messrs Smith, Cunningham, and KiM.V appeared for the workers. The Commissioner sat until late at night aw! finally brought the two parties together upon an agreement which was as favorable as possible to each without indicting a hardship upon either. The under the new award will be at not less than one shilling an hour, or tiy piecework at 12s per 1000 bushels of wheat or barley and 10s for oats. Stook threshing is done away with; men arc to be paid Is per hour while shifting from stack to stack; a week's wages to bo forfeited on either side in lien of notice, the amount to go to the food fund. The driver is to act on behalf of tho owner in adjusting minor disputes with the men, and preference is to be given to unionists where practicable. Mr Triggs congratulated the parties on having come to an agrcment. The award, when filed, will bo in force for two years.