TAILORING DISPUTE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, this day.
The Conciliation Board met in the Supreme Court to-day to settle differences between tha Tailors Union and the employers. The employees ask that day wage men have charge of apprentices and have no other permanent assistants, that the hours be 44 per week, and that the number of female employees shall not exceed the males. The masters approved ot the Dunedin log, and the Union agreed to accept it, but not the machine log, which they wished to reduce by one hour. Evidence is now being taken.
LATER.
The award of the Conciliation Board m the tailoring dispute virtually concedes to the employers the points they insisted on. The proportion of apprentices to journeymen, and of weekly wagemen to pieceworkers.is to be as fixed by the Arbitration Court in Dunedin, the minimum wage isW be £2 10s, and the hours 4S- per weeK, and the clause as to female labour is struck out, the Board not feeling justified in making any recommendation on the subject, as tailoresses were not represent^. The agreement is to remain in force till tne end of the year.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 17, 21 January 1898, Page 4
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