CONCILIATION COUNCIL.
NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEES’ WAGES. (Per Press Association.) * Wellington, August 24. This morning a conference between the representatives of the Master Printers and Newspaper Proprietors of the Dominion and the New Zealand Typographical Federation was commenced. Mr P. Hally, Concialiatiou Commissioner, presided. The object of the conference is to arrange questions of wages, hours and conditions of work generally for the Dominion. Mr G. Fenwick (Otago “Daily Times”) presented the employers’ side of the case, and Mr R. Ferguson that of the employees. The main point of the discussion during the day was the matter of dividing the Dominion into districts for the purpose of providing differential rates, of wages throughout the Dominion. It is understood that the present rates in the different districts will be maintained. A number of machinery clauses that would only affect tho provincial towns were considered. However, nothing was actually decided upon. Tbo conference will resume to-morrow.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 8, 25 August 1911, Page 4
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