CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 127, 29 May 1918, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

EATTAN ANX> WICKEK WORKERS. A sitting of tire Conciliation Council v>.. Held to-ilay, Air T. Karle GUes, CommS sioner, presiding. The dispute was oneniert by the Northern District liattan and WlckS Workers' liniuu, the object being to obtam shorter hours and increased wages. i«»«~ W. Manson, J. Cordis, and ]f. JicUeewera the assessors for the onion and Messrs k E. Wright, A. Thompson, and s. for the employers. The union asked tor » 44 hours' week, In place ot 4T, ac fixed by the old award; also that the minimum Wte « tie increased from l/3i per hour to IT and that the wages for apprentices be'-l , First year, 10/ per week; second, Increum from 14/ to 16/; third year, from IT/flto 20/; fourth year, from a 5/ to 30/ An apprentice at the end of roar jeari mar be continned as an improver for a further ■12 months, as !n the former award, Dot th* new demand was £2 5/ per week, Instoadtf £1 15/. I The employers declined to accede to th» terme demanded, and sulrmitted M : counter-proposal ten old award, with «i« addition'or a clause to the effect that oveiC time Bhoold not be payable nntil after « bourn per week had been done by a worker time lost by a worker's own' default noL ta be counted. Mr Giles said In all the disputes recentw applications were for shorter nonra and increased wases. Owing to exfctlng conditions some Increase In payment' was generally granted by the employers. One-employer suggested that it wa» dlffl. rolt Id most trades to shorten tours owln» to the scarcity of labour, bat he believed that in thie particular Industry there wen hands unemployed. The Council tien. went Into committee.