GASWORKS EMPLOYEES.
BETTER CONDITIONS WANTED
[Per Pukss Association'.]
WELLINGTON, November 26
The Conciliation Commissioner is hearing the demands of the gasworker.s for increased wages and improved conditions of work. So far no progress has been made towards an agreement The union's representatives complained that the Gas Company obviously wn K determined that the matter should go before the. Arbitration Court, hut the men absolutely refused to agree to work seven shifts a week at ordinary rates. They complained that the conditions at 'the Wellington gasworks were the worst in New Zealand, and the present demands were the men's
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12175, 26 November 1917, Page 6
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