TOKOMARU FREEZING WORKS.
STRIKE OF LABORERS
✓ (Special to “Times.”) TOKOMARU BAY, Feb. 7. All the laborers working at the breezing works being erected fete* tlie Tokomaru Sheepfarmcrs’ Co-operative Co., struck this morning, wanting 9s for eight hours, and Is 3d per hour on concrete board. Messrs Hull Bros., the contractors, ordered the strikers to hand in their time-sheets.
Thirty-two men, about half-a-dozen of them Maoris, are concerned in the strike. They were engaged in concrete work, excavation, and general laborers’ work, and were paid 8s per day of eight hours. The Europeans arc mostly strangers to the district. The men contend that as 9s a day is paid by the Waiapu County for work of a. similar character, and has been the ruling rate in the district for a considerable time, they arc entitled to it. The contractors, however, declined, to see the matter in the same light, ' and affirm that they will have no difficulty in obtaining men to do the work at 8s a day. The carpenters employed on the job are not affected by the strike, as they are working under a Court award.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2760, 8 February 1910, Page 3
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187TOKOMARU FREEZING WORKS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2760, 8 February 1910, Page 3
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