CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1917, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

OAK '.'OMI'A NT EMTPJLO-lEES. A sitting of the CmieUiation OVmneil wns held to-day to ileal with a dispute in the gas ptuptayees' trade. Mr. T. [Lirle ('riles, Coneilinblou ('nmniLs-sioner. presided. The application was r,,r „ new award in a branch ~f the industry in which there has not previously neon one. The assessors for ihe union were Messrs. !■'. Copelaud. T. Snby. and I:. Ni nunc with .Mr. .1. Clark cis | advocate. :in<l for the employer*.. Messrs, Nieorge Wallace (works superiuteiiiiloiit. Devoniport jrus-worksl. .Irunef, IMackay (works suj>erijLteii,lei,ti, and James I_nve and manager Auckland (Ins Coin- | panyi, with Mr. S. K. Wright as advocate. The union asked for seven shifts of eight hours each .per week, workers 1.. change shifts each fort-night: minimum wage fin- a reiort (house worker or tirein-in oil steam boilers to be .14 per shift; _4 hours' notice to he giivrai of lerniina.tion of engageiucnt. The employers' counter propossils agreed to the shifts clause, hut stipulated that 14 days:' notice be given on each side of termination of engacement. lCa»\h worker for l'J monit__> of more to have 14 days' holiday on full pay. All time Tv-orked outside t.he hours prescribed as sh-tCts to he paid time and a quarter for the first two lKmrs ami therenifter time and a-half. Tlie intuimnm waites, off creel by the employers were: For retort-house workers --toa-,thine men 10.6 for eifTliit hours* shi/ft. assistanis and liTeolpiuirrs 10/ for eight hours' slwCt; holler firemen, 9/. The employe™ also offered (3d per day bonus (Luring; the currency of the war and for three months nrfter declaration of ■penrrc. The Couiieil went into committee.