HIGHER PAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 293, 10 December 1937, Page 8

HIGHER PAY.

FOR GOLDMINERS. NEW RATES FIXED. AWARDS OF THE COURT. SATURDAY WORK TO CEASE. ■went* were, delivered by the Arbitration Court, to-day in four separate <l!«|»utp« affecting the jroldniininjr industry in the Waihi and Thames district*. Ta*» companies involved in the vari"a» disputes were the Martha Cold >TTtitiifr Co., the Golden Dawn ('<>., the Talisman Dubbo Co., the Victoria Co., (loleorwla Mines, Ltd., Monowai Cold Development, Ltd.. Cracoville Syndicate. Aavmata Oold and Silver Mining Co.. tfce Thame* New Shotovcr Co., Sylvia <!<j?d arid Silver Base Metal Mines (V.L.), Caledonia (1934), Ltd., Moanatelar! Golconda Consolidate*!. Ltd., Co|ronda Holdings, Ltd.. the Tarata Co., Iha Una Hill Consolidated Co., Coromaadol Cold mines, Ltd., and the Golden • rowu Co. The workers covered by the new awards are the Thames Gold Miner*. lli" Ohinemuri and Waihi pnld miners, engineers, engine drivers, winders, motormen and tlremen. The principal changes made in the n wards are the elimination of Saturday, work in the mines, a provision that work in the batteries xhall cease at S n.m. on Saturdays, and a general increase in th«i minimum rate* of [my. It is provided generally that a 40Imur week in eight-hour shifts, shall lie worked, from Monday to Friday, by nil men engaged underground, and by certain classes of surface labourers. New Rates of Pay. Minimum i!nitar rates of pay for ordinnry miners in xne new ncalo are from 10/3 to 10/ D, compared with Itt/IIJ in the old award. Details of wages for H shift of eight hours in the award relating to the Martha, and Golden Dawn niinws which apply with only slight variations in the oilier mines, are:— Miners working in drives or stones. li»/:»; minors working in drives or stopes with machines, 10/9; miners working in rises or winzes, 19/0; miners working in rises or winzes with machines, £1 n/:i; •draftsmen with machine or hand steel, £1 1/; ehambermen (with Sd per shift for oilskin money in wet shafts). 10/: C, brar-pmen, 10/; mullockers and truckers (underground), 10/3, (on surfoce), IS/S; tlmbermen, surface or underground, 10/0; stamper hands, 19/2; stamper hands' assistants, 18/11; amalgamators, 10/5; stone-breaker man feeding crusher, 19/2; stone-breaker labourers, 18/8; truckers in batteries, 18/8; battery repairers, 18/11; battery repairers' assistai4s, 18/11; cyanide-men working in wet batteries, 18/11; pressmen, or pressmen working cranes, 18/11; pressmen's labourers, 18/8; men attending sands or settlers, 18/11; concentrates treatment plant (man in charge), 19/11; concentrates treatment plant (assistants), IH/ll; vnnnermen, 18/11; vannermen'a assistants, 18/8; tube mill (man in charge), 18/11; tube mill (assistants), IH/H; men slaking lime, 19/8; surface and general labourers, 18/8; greasers, 18/11; shikars, 18/11; tar workers (men tarring tank* or any tarring job for the whole or greater part of the day), 19/8 per shift of eight hours. (This does hot apply to casual work.) Battery hopper hands who commence work between midnight and n a.m., 10/10; storemen, £4 . 10/ par week.

Not less than 18/8 per day or per shift of eight hour* to provided for any class of labour employed. Thie applies' to aiJ'tlte only. 9rortfass and Piecework. frovtolon la made in the overtime clrnwes for payment at the rate of time and a half for the ftrst three hours, and thereafter at doable time. All work done on ftandaye, New Year's Day, Boxing Bay, <*ood Friday, Easter Monday, the King's Birthday, Labour Day and Christmas Day Is to be paid for at the rata of doable time. Meal money to to he allowed at 1/9 a meal, and 2/ extra is to h* paid to men who, after having worked their ordinary day shift, are tailed oat early on tbe> next day to go on a shift other than their normal shift. If a man la required to work more than one week'* night shift continuously he is to receive 1/ extra for each shift worked nft*r the ilsnt week, but thie does not apply to men who ask for continuous night shift work or to battery »nd hopper men.

Vor pieceworkers provision is made for the payment by the employers of a fortnightly advance of HI/ a shift on the number of shifts worked, and in no case are the rate* provided for competent pieceworkers engaged on mining underground to be lower than 19/9 a day. The award to for a term of ono year, to December 0. 1998. Infiaem' Wages. The rates of pay fixed in the award for engineers employed by the Martha Company are at the rate of 2/9 an hour, after five year** apprenticeship, for qualified tradesmen, 2/7j for other tradesmen, including drill-steel sharpenora and plate- workers who do not qualify under the higher rate, and 18/8 for ■ day of eight hours for blacksmiths' strikers. Workers employed at oxyucetylene or electric welding, except on spot or butt-welding machines, for less than four hours a day, shall bo paid 1/ extra daily, and for more than /our hours in a day, 1/0 extra. The nlassee of workers covered by this award are fitters, pattern makers, turners) machinists engaged in milling, (•'aning. slotting and drilling; general I'ltu'ksmltlis, electrical fitters, drill-steel Hmrpfiiers, plate-workers and blackMiilths strikers. Engine-drivers and Firemen. The wages fixed in the award for wig winders, motormen and < "on em,doyed by the Martha CommotivelllT~°£)* fi, ' emon ' 18 / 6 ; '»™- » urine """' ,8/ ' e "Rl«« cloaneM, 18/; This award a ] Ro •„ ff)r fche tenn A Hfth sward, affecting carpenters, is " '".'"" l '," w delivered by the Court "'in it (lay or two.