NELSON WHARF LABOURERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14157, 20 April 1916, Page 4

NELSON WHARF LABOURERS.

INCREASE IK WAGES

[U.nited Pkkss Association.;

a 4i ,t WefHn§tcn f Ar-ril 19. lircnntlv tl.o iNcls-n vlrarf labourers approachof! the employers for an ircroaso m w^cs, I IT1 fc f a iVd to reach a pettlF-ment. Tho Kohon Vn'tnn referred tne matter t-.> the Wotor-'idorf;' Fdcration, who.so exroinive to-d.ov confernod with representatives of tho Shipowners' Fedei'aticn, the Union Company, and the Anchor Company, and arrived at a satisfactory settlement on the. basis of the new federation agreement. This gives the Nelson waterside v.oikers r.n increase of Sd nor hour ordinary tim© and 4d to Gd for ■overtime to 10 p.m. and after respectively.