WELLINGTON GAS MEN
[ RETURN TO WORK. ON THE FORMER TERMS. (Per Press Association.) "WELLINGTON, Aug. 12. In connection with the gas workers' dispute, the men held a meeting on Friday, and practically decided to go back, provided the company would take the whole of the men on again, leaving the conditions and pay to be adjudicated upon by a tribunal to bo mutually agreed upon. The men were met by Mr Hagger, Conciliation Commissioner, on Saturday afternoon, and they signified their preparedness to return to work on Monday, provisionally on all hands beintr taken back in the positions they occirm'ed previouslv. The matter was referred to the company, who agreed to the. proposal, and it was that the seventeen men wTfo ceased vrrrrk a month n«o raiiini»nr(> work this evening in thevr former and on the same terms as formerlv. An nm-»emen+ to this effect was signed by "both parties.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 7
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150WELLINGTON GAS MEN Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 7
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