ARBITRATION COURT.
FURNITURE TRADES’ DISPUTE. DOMINION AWARD SOUGHT. (Per United Preso Association.) WELLINGTON, August 20. The Arbitration Court is engaged to-day in hearing an application for a dominion award in the furniture-making trade. The principal conditions of the new award had been agreed to, practically on the basis of the old award, with the exception of wages and the terms on which improvers may be employed The workers are asking for a weekly rate of wages instead of an hourly one; also for an increase above the maximum skilled rate. The employers are standing on (he court's wage of 2a 2d an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19256, 21 August 1924, Page 7
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103ARBITRATION COURT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19256, 21 August 1924, Page 7
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