TYPOGRAPHERS' AWARD.
RATES OF PIECE-WORKERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, this day. Reserved judgment in the Xew Zealand typographers' dispute was delivered by the Court of Arbitration. The two matters for consideration were the question of the count for piecework and extra payment for night work, the remainder of the award, which covers all industrial districts, having been settled in conciliation council. The judgment decrees that the existing method of computing wages of pieceworkers on machines shall be maintained, and night operators shall be paid one-tenth more than the rates of day workers as fixed in conciliation council. ' In a memorandum attached to the judgment the Court stated that it was of opinion that a case had not been made out for the abolition of the practice which has been regularly followed for not less than eight yeaiv. and which has heen -legally permissible for 26 years. Mr. A. L. Monteith, employees' representative, dissented from the majority finding of the Court on the question of the cast-up for operators, expressing the opinion that as the use of wider-faced type slowly increases the system works more to the employers' advantage.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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