CARPENTERS' DISPUTE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 16, 24 February 1914, Page 8

CARPENTERS' DISPUTE.

CONCILIATION COUNCIL'S DECISION. AWARD RECOMMENDED. The Conciliation Council has filed its recommendations for an award in the dispute between the Christchurch and Sydenham branches of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and a large number of city and suburban employers. The more important recommendations are as follow:—Prom August 1 to April 30 the hours of work shall be from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m., with one hour for dinner, and on Saturday from 8 a.m. till 'noon. For the rest of the year the hours shall be from 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., with half an hour for dinner. The dinner period may be reduced for any period not less than half an hour by arrangement, on workoutside the one mile and a-half radius. The minimum wage for journeymen shall be 1/6 per hour. Where there are four or more workers engaged, he who has charge of the plans and gives instructions to others shall receive not less than 1/- a day in addition. Overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time and a-quarter up to 10 p.m., and hours, time and a-half up to 10 p.m., and double time betwen 10 p.m. and the ordinary hour of commencing work next morning. Workers required to commence work between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. .shall be paid time and a-quarter. Double time shall be paid for work on Sunday, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Show Day, Christmas Day, or Boxing Day. Piecework is prohibited. Suburban work is defined as work (distinct from country work) which is further than a mile and a-half by the nearest road used by foot passengers from the Central Post Office of the town in which the employer's place of business is situated. Workers shall be on the job at the commencing hour, but if it is outside the one mile and a-half radius the employer shall provide a conveyance, or provide tram or train fares. The worker shall be paid for all time occupied in travelling before 7.30 a.m. or after 5 p.m. from May 1 to July 31 and before 7.30 a.m. and after 5.30 p.m. from August 1 to April 30. If a worker uses a bicycle he is to be paid Id a mile or portion of a mile, or ordinary tram fares. A worker living within a mile and a-half of work outside the radius is not entitled to any allowance. Country work is work which makes it necessary for the employee to sleep away from home. His travelling expenses shall be paid, and the time occupied in travelling shall be paid for at ordinary rates. In addition 2/- a day shall be paid to all , workers, and they shall be provided with sleeping accommodation and cookingutensils.

When a worker has been regularly employed in a workshop or the erection of a building, or on repair or alteration work for one week or more he shall be entitled to receive two hours' notice, in order to sharpen his tools, or be paid two hours' extra time.

Apprentices shall be paid as follows — First year 10/-, second year 15/-, third year £l, fourth year £1 5/-, fifth year £1 15/-. An apprentice who gains a technical college certificate for a two years' course shall be paid not less then 2/- per week extra during his last two years. The proportion of apprentices shall not exceed one to every three journeymen or fraction of the first three. An apprentice's first employer shall have the right to put him on probation for three months, to determine his fitness, such period to count in his full term of five years. An employer wishing to dispense with the services of an apprentice must give him a certificate for the time served, and find him another employer within reasonable distance. Provision is made for under-rate workers, and there is also a preference clause. The scope of the award is referred to the Arbitration Court, and the term is three years. '

A LONG FLIGHT.

INVERCARGILL TO WELLINGTON BY AEROPLANE. ME SCOTLAND'S PROPOSAL. The young New Zealand aviator (Mr J. W. H. Scotland), who has recently made several highly successful flights in the south, intends to fly, the whole length of the South Island. He has already completed one stage of forty miles —fr.om Invercargill to Gore, and he will fly from Gore to Dunedin on the first day on which the weather will permit of it —probably to-day. Next Saturday he will give an exhibition at Dunedin, and afterwards he will fly to Timaru, giving an exhibition flight there on March 5. The next stage will be to Christchurch, where an exhibition takes place on Saturday, March 7. Then he will fly to some town in the Marlborough district, and from there will cross Cook Strait to Wellington. This will be the pioneer flight across the Strait, although several aviators have been talking of making it for a long time past. The scheme is an ambitious one, but Mr Scotland is a thoroughly capable airman, and has a first-class machine, so that he should have no difficulty in carrying it out.