CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 4

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

SHIET WORKERS' CLAIMS. To consider the claims of the. shirt, white, and-silk, workers' section of the Christchurch/ Tailoresses, Cutters, Pressors, and other clothing Trade Employees' Union, a Conciliation Council sat yesterday. Mr W. H. Hazger, Conciliation Commissioner, presided, and Messrs J. I». Oake.i, F. B. Creswell sat as assessors for the Mr x. Cooper as agent, aivJ Aliesea K: McJiullon and B. Campbell, und Mr i\ It. Cooke aa assessors for the Union. The workers' demands were aa follows: Ait lioui- week. The term of apprenticeship for females shall be two veins, and each worker shfH serve two years aa «n improver. Wages shall be paid to. apprentices and improve).s at the following rates:—tor females engaged in any capacity in a shirt or bloilse Jactorv, first six months 10« 6d per wdek, second 12s 6d, third IBs, fourth 178 6d, fifth ti, sixth £1 2s td, seventh £1 ss, and eighth it 10s. Apprentices .and improvers shall receive a bonus of 6s a week, and journeywomen os a week, lue minimum wage tor journeyvroilieii shall be rj per weak. Overtime shall be paid at the rate of tiine and a half for the first three hours, and double time afterwards. When less than 24 hours' notice i» given of overtime Is 6d shall be paid for tea money. The' minimum wag© for $ swond-class cut* ter shall be £4 0s 8d per week (Is lOd an hour), for a stock cuttfer and trimmer £3 lfs (Is. 9d), far the examiner in charge of finishing l-oom £3 17s (is Od). A bonus of 8d an hour shall paid in addition. Apprentices to cutting and trimming shall eerve five years and be paid as fpllows:— "First six months £1 per week, second £1 3a, third' £1 6s, fourth £1 9s, fifth £1 12s, sixth #1 13s, seventh £2, eighth £2 ss, ninth £2 10s, tenth £2 15s. "So counter proposals were filed by the employers. ~ . All points were agreed to except the matter of wages, which, in view ot tho recent pronouncement of his Honour Mr Justice ftrazer that adjustments of bonuses wbuld prdbably be made next month, were referred to the Arbitration Court for settlement. The agreement is to remain in operation until December, 1928.