SATISFACTORY.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2033, 27 March 1913, Page 2

SATISFACTORY.

EXD OF THE FERRY STRIKE.

i'HE MEN GET A 48-HOUR WEEK

I'OR THE OLD 64-HOUR PAY,

Br EI.KCTBIO TELESBAPH— COPYBIGHT. PBB PBSBB ASSOCIATION. , Sydney, March 26. iho terry strike is settled. A 48----hour week is conceded, and the pay remains the same as for the present 04-hour week. Overtime is fixed at the rate of time and a quarter, ihere is to be no victimisation on •either side. The whole of the services were resumed at 4 o'clock. The men are jubilant at the resumption, and at the terms of the agreement. These provide for 96 hours' ordinary working per fortnight, one single week not to comprise more than 54 hours. Overtime to the extent of 12 hours weekly :. is allowed on ordinary working days and is to be paid at the rate of time and a quarter. On Sundays and holi- ' aays the overtime is at the rate of tune, and a half, with other points previously mentioned. . Ihe agreement will come into force immediately o u the resumption of work, but an award for three years is to be made by the Wages Board °v the basis of such agreement. Mr Holme, the Industrial Registrar, acting as intermediary between the parties, displayed much JuUemeiit, smoothing out points at issue nSiation S lmeS * hreatetted . *° btoek th B a fo f c a r set . tle ment was reached vie Sydney femes started running a reo labour maimed boat from Circular Quay to Milgon'e Point This and led to all th e ticket collectors, excepting one, refusing duty. Tho attempt was not very sucoessful, the bulk or the public preferring the Government's free "joy rides''