TIMBER WORKERS
NORTH ISLAND DISPUTE REFERRED TO COURT. [ Per Press Association. J PALMERSTON N., March 8. The hearing commenced yesterday before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. R. E. Price) of the dispute in which the North Island Timber Workers’ Union is seeking an award operative to October 31 next covering the South Auckland (including Gisborne), Taranaki, and Wellington industrial districts. They ask that it apply to all workers in logging operations, post splitting, firewood cutting in sawmills or timber yards, planing and joinery factories, and box factories. The territory involved, one of the principal milling areas in New Zealand, concerns 3500 workers. Wage schedules with numerous classifications have been advanced, but they differ materially from the employers’ offers. Little progress had been made when the proceedings adjourned owing to failure to reach an agreement on the general principal of a 40-hour week. The employers contended that this was impossible for bushmen, the key occupation in the timber industry, but said it would be practicable in sawmills if the supply of logs could be maintained. The union delegates refused to abandon their claim for a 40-hour week, and the whole dispute was referred to the Arbitration Court.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 9
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