CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 211, 4 September 1917, Page 2

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

'' CEMENT WORKERS" DISPUTE. . A sitting of the Conciliation Council was held to-d:iv, presided over by the Commis- : sinner, Mr T. harle Giles, lo deal with a I dispute riled by the Auckland Builders, _ Contractors, and General Labourers' Indus- , trial I'nion of Workers, against the New , ! Zealand Portland Cement Co., Ltd.. the I Domiuion Portland Cement Co., and I Wilson's Portland Cement Co. 1 i Messrs. 11. B. Washington, T. H. Wilson, 1 . and E. Bradshaw were the assessors for the " ! employers, with Mr C. E. Wright as advocate. The assessors for the union were 1 Messrs. A. O'Neill. F. Smith and J. U. 1 Grant, with Mr Wesley Richards as advo- - ; cate. ' 1 The union's claims were for a 47-hours' week, with pay for 4S hours: overtime at the rate of time and a-half for the first two hours, and double time thereafter, also for Sundays and holidays. The wages asked were as follow: Rotary buruers, 13/ per shift: do., assistants, VI.", raw millers, 13/; • cement millers. 13/; do., assistants, 12, : . coal millers and firemen. 13/; trimmers, i 12/; clinkermen. lo ; crossing plaut meu. 13/; feeding crushers, 13/; all men bagging. carrying and feeding. 16/; switchboard 1 attendants, 12/ per shift: fitters, labourers, blacksmiths, blacksmiths' strikers, general j lahourers. 12/ per day: quarry men. 13/; , drill men. 13/6: braceuien, wlncbmen and I stone motor-way carmen, 12/ per day; discharging and loading boats, 2/ per hour up - till midnight, after that double time. Sun- . day work on boats double time: quarry and milling cement, not less thau 12 per day. Sixpence per day extra was asked for men ' cleaning boilers: cleaning eeonoraisers, 18/ - a shift. • The employers submitted as a counter-pro- , posal the Warkworth award, in which 47 hours was fixed as a week's work, overtime ' at the rate of time and a-quarter, and Inter time and a-hnlf: the wages range from 8/6 to 10/6 per day. Mr Giles said the dispute first came before the Council at Whangarei on the 27th of June, when objection was raised by the New Zealand Cement Co.. and the Dominion Cement Co. that they considered they were hound by the Warkworth agreement. Personally, he held that agreement invalid, and that was supported by the Arbitration Court. The dispute was referred back to the Council, and the Warkworth Co. had been joined. 3 The Council then went into committee. 5 ————————————m-—~m————