SUGAR STRIKE

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160740, 28 August 1920, Page 5

SUGAR STRIKE

FRESH DEVELOPMENTS. (Per United Press Association.) ACCEL AND, August 27. 'Die Chelsea Sugar Factory was ready, for tho resumption of refining operations. but tlie men declined to return to ■pork. A general meeting of tho Union was held during the afternoon to consider what the. Union deemed to be fresh developments, which had arisen out of the hearing of their case by tho Arbitration Court yesterday. A letter from Mr - Ballard, advisory accountant to tho Board of Trade, was read, in which he asked the workers to resuino operations. A resolution affirming tho men’s determination not to return to werk until tho fiv© points conceded by tho Board of Trade at the ncent conference were embodied in any award tho Court might make was carried. These concessions provided for a 44-houf week, conditionally upon tho output being sufficient to meet the company’s contract with the Government; also a minimum weekly wage of £4 4s; seven holidays yearly on full pay; overtime at time and a half for three hours, and double thereafter; and retrospective pay as from July Ist. The secretary of tho Union states that tho position has now reached a. critical stage. He considered the men. were justified in holding out for fair and reasonable conditions, especially as the Government bad been prepared to give tbem these condition©.