MEN STOP WORK
AUCKLAND INCIDENT (Per Press Association, ) AUCKLAND, last night. Claiming that they were entitled to overtime for work performed last Saturday morning, men engaged at the Challenge phosphate works. Otahuhu. stopped work Ibis morning. The incident arose as a result of the Anzac Day holiday, the company taking the attitude that it was entitled to work the men on Saturday morning at ordinary rates of pay in order to make up 40 hours in the week. The men are employed on an hourly wage and were paid for Anzac Day. so that, while Saturday work meant additional pay for them, they demanded it should be at overtime rates. After some negotiations the men returned to work this afternoon.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 16
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120MEN STOP WORK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 16
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