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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69
Proposed Agreement
Proposed Agreement.
October 1st, 1890.
Proposed agreement by mutual consent, between the United Millers, Engine Drivers, and Mill Employees' Society and Millowners of New Zealand, for the purpose of regulating the uniform working of flour mills, best calculated to faithfully carry out the Eight Hours principle.
1st.—In all divisions of Mill Work the whole of the Employees to be members of this Society.
2.nd.—The recognition of the Eight Hours system in its entirety.
3rd.—Overtime rate—Time and a half.
Holidays—First and second day of each year, Good Friday, Queen's Birthday, Demonstration Day, Prince of Wales' Birthday, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day; if worked, double rates to be paid.
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Sunday Labour to be strenuously avoided, except in event of extreme necessity, and in all cases to be paid for at the rate of double time.
Wm. Houston, President.
V. Wilson, Vice-President.
H. Trousselot, Treasurer.
D. Omie, Secretary.
H. Hopkinson, Christchurch.
T. Undrill, Ashburton.
W. Houston, Timaru.
J. Thorpe, Oamaru.
R. Macdonald, Dunedin.
G. Coates, Invercargill.