WORK AND WAGES.
CITY EDITION.
PUBLISHED AT 5 P.M.
THE SUGAR GROWERS. RESULT OF THE CONFERENCE. A SETTLEMENT REACHED. TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 15. 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, August 15. The conference sat till midnight, and the Minister of Works then announced to the Press representatives that the negotiations had concluded, and that a form of agreement had been drafted, approved, and would be completed at noon to-day. It is iinderstood that the settlement is on the basis of a fortyeight hours week, overtime to be paid only after nine hours have been worked. The settlement covers not only the sugar dispute, but any possibility of a dispute in the various callings represented by the delegates to the conference. Field work is not touched in the agreement, the delegates withdrawing their demands. The delegates gave an undertaking that work would be immediately resumed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10232, 15 August 1911, Page 3
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