HOUSING CONTRACT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20781, 16 July 1937, Page 7

HOUSING CONTRACT

WORKMEN’S DEMANDS By Telegraph —Pres* Association AUCKLAND, July 15. A stop-work meeting, lasting half an hour, was held by the carpenters and builders’ general labourers engaged in the erection of State houses at Orakei this morning. Union officials, representatives of the men and Mr W. J. Lyon, M.P., addressed the meeting, while the officials of the contracting firm, the Fletcher Construction Company, heard the men's demands. These included a claim for two hours’ pay in the event of the men reporting for work, and being unable to continue through wet weather. This was later coupled with a request for a 2d per hour all round increase in pay. It was pointed out that owing to the pressure of work, the claims before the Arbitration Court would probably not t? completed until early next year. The meeting decided to negotiate with Mr J. A. Lee and decided to take up with the company the suggestion of a ten-minute morning “tea.”