SADDLERS' WAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 285, 1 December 1932, Page 15

SADDLERS' WAGES.

FUIiIi AGREEMENT REACHED. Before the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. P. Hally, a full agreement was reached yesterday morning in the dispute between the employers and the Auckland Harness, Collarmakers, Bagmakers, and Bridlecutters' Union. Messrs. W. B. Darlow and G. Mills-Palmer represented the employers, with Mr. S. E. Wright as advocate, and the union's advocate was the secretary, Mr. C. Salter. Wages of journeymen were fixed at 1/10 an hour. The employers wanted 1/9 and the union the old rate of 2/, but an agreement was finally reached at 1/10. Women machinists' wages were fixed at lid an hour. Overtime was fixed at time and a quarter for the first three hours and time and a half thereafter. Wages for female stitchers were fixed at 12/6 a week for the first year, 17/6 for the second, £1 2/6 for the third, £1 7/6 for the fourth, £1 12/6 for the fifth, and £1 17/6 thereafter. The holidays were fixed as in the old award. It was pointed out by the union that several firms had for years past made no deduction from wages for Christmas Day, and it asked that such a condition be embodied in the award. The employers' assessors said that while they could not agree to put it in the award they would undertake to circularise all the employers in the trade and recommend that Christmas Day should be a paid holiday. The new award, which is for two years from December 9, is much on the lines of the old one.