NEW CONDITIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 13

NEW CONDITIONS.

INDUSTRIAL ORDERS.

RULINGS OF THE COURT.

REDUCED HOURS ON TUESDAY,

A summary of the rulings of the Arbitration Court in relation to the new industrial legislation gives an indication of the tremendous amount of work done by the Court in recent weeks. The re-, duced working hours will become effective on Tuesday next, September 1, which will be an historic date in the industrial life of the Dominion. The summary of the Court's ruling is as follows: — Forty-hours Week. Glass workers, Auckland (eight hours without a meal period permitted); Union Oil, Soap and Candle Company, Limited, Auckland (Saturday work permitted) ; saddlery, harness and bag ; manufacturing (Saturday work per- i mitted) ; Acetone Illuminating and ( Welding Company, Limited (eight hours unbroken shifts permitted) ; Westport , Coal Company (coke section) ; Welling- , ton municipal drivers (variations in i conditions); Wellington municipal dairy ; workers (variations in conditions); Wellington municipal engine drivers; Wellington municipal labourers; Christchurch abattoir workers; gold-mining workers; Dunedin match factory employees; Canterbury and Dunedin ( stone and monumental masons; gas , workers (except those subject to a 44- , hour order); bacon curing, female ] workers and males under 16); Dunedin tramway workers (Saturday work per- ( mitted) ; Dunedin cable tramway workers; building and related indus- ■ tries; furniture workers; motor coach builders (Saturday work permitted) ; ( range workers (Saturday work, with limited application) ; clothing workers; biscuit and confectionery workers (Saturday work, with limited application); soap manufacturing (Saturday work), oil stores, ammunition workers, paper mill workers, sawmill workers, timber yard workers and box-makers; woollen mills, hosiery and knitting factories,, footwear manufacturing industry and repairing; licensed hotels, laundry workers (Union Steam Ship Company); motor and cycle mechanics (Saturday work). Forty-four Week. Retail grocery workers; retail shop assistants; N.Z. Rubber Mills, Penrose; ship repairers; N.Z. Woolpack and Textiles, Limited; flax mill workers; Wellington femalo hairdressers; smokeless fuel and briquettes workers, Canterbury; gas manufacturing, yardmen, drivers and complaints men; bacon curing, except female workers and males under 16; Wellington, Canterbury and Dunedin retail butchers and smallgoods workers; Canterbury, Otago and Southland manure, soap and candle workers; Canterbury and Otago fellmongers; Canterbury and Otago tannery workers; fruit and produce storemen and packers; St. George Company, Limited, fruit and fish preserving, jam and starch making and vegetable canning; bakery workers; N.Z. Insulators, Limited; petrol station attendants. Variations Made. Green Island Iron Rolling Mills, 44 hours for mill hands and 40 for labourers; aerated water workers, 44 hours November-April, 36 hours MayOctober; work rooms attached to retail establishments to work on days on which retail establishments are open, but weekly hours iixed by awards or orders are not disturbed; engine-drivers, cleaners and greasers, 44 to 40, according to hours worked by concerns to which they avo attached; storemen and packers, 44 hours, or, if attached to a firm working less, the reduced hours; typographers 42, linotype mechanics, jobbing workers, printing machinists, lithographers, bookbinders, etc., 44 hours for day workers and 42 hours for night workers; photo process engravers, day workers 44 hours, night workers 40 hours; stationery manufacturing workers, 44 hours. Seasonal Variations. North Island butter factories, August 15 to March 17, 48 hours, March 18 to August 14, 40 hours; North Island cheese factories, August 14 to May 14, 52 hours, May 15 to June 16, 44 hours, June 17 to August 13, 38 hours; South Island butter factories, September 15 to April 15, 48 hours, April 10 to September 14, 40 hours; South Island cheese factories, September 14 to June 14, 52 hours, Juno 15 to July 16, 44 hours, July 17 to September 13, 38 hours; pea and bean seed grading and seed cleaning and pressing, 44 hours for six months and 40 for six months with Saturday work; garden seed packeting, 44 hours for four months, 40 for four months and 36 for four months with Saturday work; dairy equipment manufacturing (two firms), 44 hours MayOctober, 40 hours November-April; limemaking, 44 hours for six months, 40 for six months; Nelson jam makers, fruit preserving and canncrs, 44 hours NoV-cmber-April, 40 hours May-October. Miscellaneous. Canterbury gardeners, request for reduction from 48 to 40 hours refused; Wellington and Cliristchurch firo brigades, . request for hours reduction refused; waterside workers, request for 40-hour week refused; fur-trimming industry, application for 44 hours, . January-July, refused; application by four jewellery manufacturers for 44 hours refused; application by four tie manufacturers for 44 hours refused; cliemipal manure industry,- 40 hours and shifts agreement ratified; cement workers, application for 44 hours withdrawn, but conditions made relating to meal periods. Kelburn and Ivarori Tram- ' way Company's power-house excluded , from Factories Act.

The Court lias also expressed the opinion that a 40-hour week for milk roundsmen and depot workers is practicable, but as this apparently would necessitate an increase in the price of milk, it adjourned the application to permit the employers to submit particulars.