SHORTER WORKING WEEK
HIGHER SCALE OF PAYMENT CLAIM MADE BY IRONWORKERS. CONCILIATION COUNCIL CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Welington, Dec. 8. A shorter working week with the object of spreading work among more men and assisting towards a solution of the unemployed problem was sought by’the ironworkers of New Zealand, who discussed the case with the Ironmasters’ Federation before the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. P. Halley, to-day. The unions asked for a 35-hour week instead of 44, and a generally higher scale of wages was submitted. The masters’ counter proposals were that the working hours should be a day and four on Saturdays, and that employers should not be compelled to pay overtime unless the number of hours stipulated was exceeded. The proceedings will probably occupy the whole day and will possibly extend into to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1931, Page 9
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