AGREEMENT REACHED
KILLING TO BE RESUMED AT BORTHWICKS Bv Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. Work will be resumed to-morrow at Borthwick's Belfast works. This agreement was reached this morning and later in the day the chairman of the Disputes Committee (Mr s. Ritchie) announced his finding that the third chain which the company proposed to establish was a separate unit and that men from the existing chains could not be transferred to it. This ruling, the chairman explained, prevented the participation by men employed on the additional chain from sharing in the pool earned by the existing two chains. The contention of the company when it advised its intention to introduce a third chain was that six men employed last season as extras on the first two chains should be employed so that relief workers should be available at any time for No, 1 and No. 2 chains which employed 35 men each. “The decision of the committee,” said Mr Ritchie, “does not dispose of the question of spare workers who are necessary for the efficient working of the industry, but that matter is being discussed by the parties concerned.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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190AGREEMENT REACHED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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