CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14432, 13 August 1912, Page 2

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

COACHBUILDERS' DISPUTE. The Conciliation Council met yesterday to hear the dispute between the Canterbury Coachbuilders , Industrial Union of Workers and the Canterbury Coachbuilders Industrial Union of Employers, and about 128 private firms. Mr J. R. • Triggs, ConcLiation Commissioner, presided, and the assessors were: lor the emp«oyers, Messrs sS. Stevens, W. Price, and W. Boon; and for the Union, Messrs H. Kennedy, A. C. Simmons, and J. Englefield. Air D. G. Sullivan conducted the case for the Union. The Union asked for, inter alia, a 44 hour week, a wage of Is 6d per hour, leading hands in any department to receivo in addition Is per day and an allowance ot Gd per day for all journeymen wood-workers for use of tools. The Employers' Unions put in counterproposals for a 48 hour week," a wage of Is 3d per hour, -with* ah extra wagj of Is per day for leading hands in any department. Air F. Thompson, general manager for the Tramway Boarii, a&ked that the Board be exempted from the 44- hour week, and also from having to pay wages during the employer's time, iie stated that the other.ski Led workers .-n the Board's employ -worked 48 hours fi. week, and were paid in their own time, and the Board wished to have a uniform system. The application was refused. The following agreement was arrived at: —JTorty-eight hour week; wages Is *4'£d per hour, leading hands in any department to receive Is per day extra; overtime rates —boys .to serve five years' apprenticeship; one apprentice to be allowed to every three journeymen in wood-shop, paint-shop, trimming-shop and smith-shop, each apprentice in a smith-shop after seiTiiiK three years to be entitled to a fire, another apprentice to be taken on when the first apprentice goes to a fire; apprentices to be paid the following rates —first year, 10s per week, second 12s 6d, third 17s 6d, fourth 255, fifth 37s 6d; . provisions for improvers at Is per hour for the .first twelve months after apprenticeship, and Is 3d per hour for the next twelve months, and for helpers at the following wages—ls years of age, 10s per week, 1.6 years 15s. 17 years 20s, 18 years 255, 19 years 30s, 20 years 355. over 20 years Is per hour; term of award three years, award to come i into force on November Ist. Under the old award the wages of journeymen were Is 3d per hour, so that the agreement arrived at prorides an increase of 6s per week.

Messrs Baldwin and Rayward, Gloucester street, Christchurch, report that amongst the manjr applications for patents they have just filed are:—A. Cooper, Pajmerston North, rush and tnssock knife attachment; R. Verey, Gore, speed gearing and clutch;; C. 6! Monro, Auckland, window anti-rattler; F. 6. Barnes, Seddon, swingletree; F. 3. Smith, Christchurch, vehicle tyre. 5