ARBITRATION COURT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13131, 2 June 1908, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

(_>BXSS ASSOCIATION TE-XC-U-l). AUCKLAND, June 1. The Arbitration Court's award in the plasterers' dispute prov-de_ 47 hotrr* as a week's work, ending at noon on Saturday, but add* that the practice of working 47 hours and paying for 48 may be continued, and employers are recommended to continue the same. Wages aro fixed at Is 6d per hour for journeymen. Th© Arbitration Court has grren lta .ward in tho Gisborno Watorsido Worker-.' dispute. The £«»<»' n-ork are to be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., "-elusive of the roeaJ hour. Tho wage, for stevedore and geaieral cargo work ,re to be Is 6d per hour, and overtime _b Id per hour. When meals aro required .n board ship, the employer «ip. ply them at sixpence each. A P» Orart i-ta-duood in ite award, the followin<** provision to deal with stmkexa: —The Union eba-l do all in rts Jf*f* *w present any strike by any of the rorkers affected by the awar«, and if any strike shan occur in which any nerobers of this Union shall toke pact, *,uch striko shall -De prnno. facae ervi*ience that the Union has oommrttod a breadi of its duty. The Court reserves full in the event of any iiich striko occurring, to mispend, on cho arpolication of any of the omplov>rs th<» operation of al or any provi»ions of this award, for each period aa the Court shnill think proper.