FISHCURERS' WAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 2

FISHCURERS' WAGES.

A MATTER FOR -CONCILIATION. The Conciliation Council sat in committee this morning to; discuss the terms of an agreement affecting the industry of fish-curing. The Comunissioner (Mr. T. Harle Giles) presided.', and associated with liini were the following assessors: — For the Auckland Fish. Curers' Union: Messrs. Frank Barber, Joseph Reid, and J. H. Deighton; and for the employers (of whom nine were cited): Messrs. G. Sanford, J. Williams and G. Moros. Mr. Arthur Rosser conducted the case for the Union. ■The term of the last fish-enrers' award expired in 1910, so that for nearly three years the. industry has 'been working under the conditions laid down in an old award that has never been superseded. Now, 'however, the fish-curers have sought a new award, the chief feature of which is that they ask for an increase of 10/ in the minim—m weekly, wage. The "wages clause" runs: "The wages to be paid to workers employed in connection with the work of ftsh-cunng shall not b.e less than £2 15/ per week ■for curers, and not Jess than £3 per week for smokers." The existing rate is £2 5/ per week. The old conditions governing overtime were an allowance of time and a-qirarter up to midnight and time and a-half. thereafter. The new schedule asks for time and- a half and -double time, re- : spectively, in respect of overtime under the conditions above named.