AUCKLAND PAINTERS' DISPUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 2

AUCKLAND PAINTERS' DISPUTE.

» i A PAtKTIAL SETTLEMENT. 'NEW 'sraSDKBAN WORK CLAUSE. . ■ A partial settlement in the above dispute has been- -arrived at.- All' the clauses in the-claims have been amicably adjusted'•with.''the "exception" of the question of wages," which'" 'has'been 'referred to the Court.' The union' asked' for' l/4_ per hour as agreed upon by employers •in Dunediob but. .the employers .h.er'e did not see their -way clear.:tor:increase tbe existing -sFhe'">-wages* |of apprentices have been increased' 'in the fourth year from £1 to £>1 S/, and in ' the '.fifth from £il 5/ to £l 10/1 "-Overtime is...to be paid to apprentices at the rale of (3d. per hour to the end of the second year, and one shilling 'per lout • after _ that. Clauses relating. to . hours, overtime, and iholddays, payment of. wages, termination of ■ engagement, ap...prentices,,. underrate.'..." workers', piece-' ..work, tools, .scopfe of. awaiid,. were mv- : tnaßy .ragrged- . .upop,,mainly, in ,-accord with the old. awajd. In suburban, work the clause relating to- journeymen residing more than two ' miles from where the work is to be done was "struck' out; and the folio wing substituted:—"Work -done oyer two miles' from employer's' .. P).? cc : ..of but which.. d,e«s not come within the definition of country work, shall 'be considered suburban-.work, and journeymen employed thereon shall ..ip allq,wed and paid, for time reasonably occupied by them in walking from the place of business to : or from each place of work, or they shall be conveyed to and from such work at the- cost of'-the employer, half-an-hou'r to be allowed foralien .walking by the' "worker .' orconveyancing by.the employer before any. travelling l time shall .be .payable.'.' . A ngw preference clause was. also added. The assessors unanimously accorded a hearty-vote of thanks to'the Commissioner (Mr' Harle Giles).