INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES SETTLED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 142, 17 June 1910, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES SETTLED.

Mr. P. ffalley, Conciliation Commis. sioner, in conference with the representatives iof the Amalgjamated Society of Eagineers (Auckland branch) and sundry employers, brought about a satisficltory settlement yesterday afternoop. on all points. The eettlement is much on the lines of the β-ld award, with a feW excep- '; %ionsj including 'the length of apprentice: ship, which is to be reduced from S.years to 5 years> after which 12 months will ibe spent as improver at the rate of 9i per' hour, followed by a further 12 months at the rate o f i/ii per hour. Another alteration that instead of the union having no preference, clause as hitherto, the Auckland employers have agreed to wh&bi is known: as the "pqurt's preference." Another disputp finally disposed of is the one between the hotel employees' and their employers. An advance of wages hae been conceded by the employers,\rh(> . have received , compensation in the shape of a number of conditions which, jit: is considered will enable them to .caxry oa "thejf less friction hitherto been the case. The diifpute J>etweep the ,fijshorne' Farmers* Fpeezißg aid rSTeJeon " 5r06., JJtA., on the one • hand, and the < Poverty Bay Union of porkers op the other, has beea.amicably settled by the,; parties »theinselyes. •.. -~