CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15462, 15 December 1915, Page 10

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

BAKERS DRITERS' DISPUTE.

The Corn iiiation Council met yesterday morning to hear an industrial dispute ar-sing between the Canterbury Motorcar. Horse Drivers, and Livery Staolo Employees' Union, and C. AV. Agar, and other employers engaged in the bakery business. Mr J. Jl. Triggs (Conciliation Commissioner) presided: the employers' assessors were. Messrs C. C. Brown and F. G. Norton, and the Union'., assessors, Messrs «I. Lyness, 11. 11. McCaw, and H. Hunter.

The Thioii asked for a '175 hour week. tlio daily working hours not to exceed 84 hours 011 iivt> days in the work, or 1} hours o» tlio day of the weekly half-holiday. Tho minimum wages for drivers asked for wore as follows: For those driving and attending one, horse. £.Tper week; for those driving two horses. JC3 (is; for those driving morn than two horses. Is per day extra, for each additional horso. Casual drivers to be paid at the rate of Is Gd per liour, with special overtime rates. Overtime rates were asked for ordinary employees, and also a preference elause. The balcors were included in the general drivers' dispute last time, and they stated to tha Council that they u ished to continue so unless a bakers drivers' union was formed separate from the General Drivers' Union. The dispute was accordingly referred to the Arbitration Court.