Question of Working
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Conditions in NC
'From Our Own Correspondent) TRADES union headquarters at Noumea announced in July that negotiations with the employers’ organisation for the betterment of working conditions had broken down and that, in view of the em
ployers’ refusal to discuss the five points in dispute, the only altern ative was “direct action.”
The five points are: (1) No further racial discrimination; (2) 10 per cent, increase in pay; (3) 5 per cent, bonus for special classes of work; (4) Bonus of 1 per cent, of salaries for old employees; (5) 18 days’ paid holiday instead of 12 for those workers who are not free at week-ends.