COUNTRY BAKERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 48, 26 February 1935, Page 7

COUNTRY BAKERS.

SEPARATE AWARD SOUGHT. COURT RESERVES DECISION. An application for an award to cover country bakers was made to the Arbitration Court this morning. Mr. Justice Frazer presided, and with him were Mr. W. C. Prime, assessor for the employers, and Mr. A. L. Monteith, aesessor -for the employees. The application was filed for the union by Mr. E. Watson, who stated that the employers were endeavouring to reintroduce a ten-hour day, and the union claimed that no more than eight hours a day should be worked without overtime. Conditions in the country were practically the same as in town, but, although the award set a week's work at 46 hours, \n those bakeries where a permanent doughman was not employed men had to work an hour or two on Sundays and received no pay for it. Questioned by the Court. Mr. Anderson, employers' representative, admitted Mr. Watson's statement to be true, but said that a man who had to make dough on Sundays would not have to work more than half an hour or so. Mr. Watson also asked the Court, in making an award, to prohibit all work, except dough-making, between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m., or to make a uniform penalty rate of 1/ per hour for all work done before 4 a.m. Objecting to the employers' request for a ten-hour day. Mr. Wateon said there was no reason why a baker should work longer hours than any other tradesman. The Court reserved its decision.