STOP-WORK MEETING
STATE HOUSE LABOURERS T-TIGIIER WAGE DEMANDED PAY FOR WET .WEATHER (Bor Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A stop-work meeting lasting tor half an hour was held by carpenters and builders’ general labourers engaged in the erection of State houses at Orakei this morning. Union officials, representatives of the men, and Mr. W. J. Lyon, M.P., addressed the meeting while officials of the contracting firm, the Fletcher Construction Company, heard the men’s demands. These included a claim for two hours’ pay in the event of men reporting for work and being unable to continue through wet weather. This was later coupled with a request for an all-round increase in pay of twopence an hour. It was pointed out that owing' to pressure of work the claims now before the Arbitration Court would probably not be finalised until early next year. The meeting decided to negotiate with Mr. J. A. Lee, the Under-Secretary for Housing, to take up with the company a suggestion for 10 minutes for morning “tea.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 6
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