CHEMICAL WORKS STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 166, 17 July 1939, Page 12

CHEMICAL WORKS STRIKE

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD WORKERS DESIRE A TRIBUNAL EMPLOYERS OBJECT f s [ Per Free, Ausclauon. 1 AUCKLAND, July 14. d A conference of the disputes comf mittee of the Auckland Federation of i_ Labour and representatives of the 400 o chemical manure workers who are on strike will be held to-morrow. At a round-table conference bed tween employers and employees on if Thursday, said Mr. W. J. Cuthbert, c vice-president of the federation, and Mr. W. Miller, secretary of the Otaj huhu Chemical Manure Workers’ g Union, they, as workers’ representa--5 tives, had suggested laying the mat,e ter before an independent tribunal. > The tribunal they proposed should s- consist of a representative of the New s. Zealand Farmers’ Union and of the le Federation of Labour, with a chairr. man acceptable to both parties. ,-i The proposal was objected to by ■n the employers, they added, on ike <- grounds that the Farmers’ Union le would be biased. The employers had ■e intimated at a previous conference between thhe parties that they were rt going to make representations to the iv Government Io increase the selling le ptrice of superphosphates from £3 16s s- to £4 per ton. If that increase were Id allowed they would raise the workers' wages by lid per hour. That, would r- have meant that workers would have ?- received a gross sum of about £6OOO. s' Had the request of the employers to the Government been successful the employers would have received seme £70,000.