FULL AGREEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 141, 17 June 1939, Page 15

FULL AGREEMENT.

TANNERY WORKS DISPUTE.

INCREASE OF PENNY AN HOUR

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. After a sitting extending over tlire" days complete agreement was reached in Conciliation' Council in Wellington today in the dispute between the New Zealand Freezing Works and Related Trades' Industrial Association of Workers and the New Zealand Tanners' Industrial Association of Employers. This was an application by the workers for a Dominion award.

The employers agreed to give a penny an hour increase all round in wages on condition that the workers accepted 'hclauses relating to hours and classification existing in the present award. This was agreed to. The following hourly rates of wages were agreed to: —Carriers, handfieshers and machine splitters, 2/Si; shaving machine-hands, _76>,; machir.efieshers, handfieshers after machine, machine or hand scudders, machine or hand unhairers. 2/6; staking machinists, felt-makers. pelt-refleshers, lac:ruermixers, tanyard and lime-pit hands. drum hands, roller men and lacquer sprayers. 2/6; machine splitters' assistants and all others, 2/4.

With regard to the employment of youths, the employers agreed that the minimum rates of pay between the ages of 19 and 20 should be increased from £3 a week to £3 5/, and from 20 to 21 from £3 10/ to £3 15/. It was agreed that the wages of specialists, which varied in different tanneries, should boarranged between the secretary of the local union and the employer, the matter to be referred to a disputes committee if agreement could nut be made. The only matter referred to the Court of Arbitration was that concerning under-rate workers. The award will >;oin. % into force on June 22 and will expire on December 31, 1040.