WORK AND WAGES.
AN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION. Per Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. It is reported that an extraordinary position lias been set up in the local plasterers trade, and that a deadlock is threatened. A conference of the Dunedin Master Builders' Association and Master Plasterers was held on Friday to consider the question of plasterers' wages. It was reported that quite recently an advertisement was published in the local newspapers that plasterers were available at 14s per day. The advertisement, it is said, was signed by the secretary of the Plasterers' Employees' Union. The plasterers' award, however, defines the wages of journeymen at 12s per day. The notice was inter- J preted as being tantamount to a demand for an increase of wages without adopting the usual procedure. In the opinion of several speakers the present position amounts to a strike, as several employees are reported to have left their jobs, refusing to work for the award rate. The meeting also deemed it extraordinary that such action should have haprpened, seeing that the award is of recent date, and that the present condition of the trade did not, in the opinion of the conference, warrant such action on behalf of the union.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 5
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202WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 5
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