FELLMONGERS' DISPUTE.
AN AGREEMENT MADE. Before the Conciliation Council yesterday, an agreement was concluded in the Tanners', Fellmougers', and Skinners' Union dispute. The parties agreed to the following scale of wages: —Chrome tanners, wool sorters, pullers, pelt elassers, and pelt drivers, l/(i per hour. Machine hide fleshers, uuhairers and skudders, machine shaving hands, machine splitters, hand Heshers and packers 1/4 per hour. Leather rollers, beamsnien, man in charge of wool-scouring machine, chrome grainers, strikers, pelt fleshing machinists, painters and trimmers, 1/3 fd per hour. ]\!en over 55 years of age, unable to earn full pay, JIM per hour, all other workers over the age of 21 1/:! per hour. The 4A hours week was adopted.
The agreement will come into force on January 1, and remain in Operation till April j.'i, 191!).
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 881, 6 December 1916, Page 9
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