CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17612, 15 November 1922, Page 5

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

BOHEEMAKEKS' DISPUTE. A meeting of a Conciliation Council was held yesterday to consider the industrial dispute between the employers and the United Boilermakers', Iron end) Steel, Shipbuilders' Union. Tie Conciliation Commissioner, Mr W. H.'Hagger, presided. The assessors for. the employers were Messrs G. Scott and £'. Anderson, \phile the employees' representatives wew Messrs H. R.. Priest, W. J. Baynes and C. P. Aloonar. The employers' claim* incfaded an appeal for an increase in working time to 47 hours per week. < They also claimed that overtime be paid at time and for. the first two hours, for the next two hours time and a-half and double time thereafter until commencing time nest day. They allowed that double pay should be* granted for Sunday work as well as that done on Good Friday and Christmas' Day, but claimed tbat only time and a-half should be paid: on the remaining five statutory holidays. The wages table set out in tho claim was as follows:—Boilermakers, Is 6d per: hour and when enga*ged on. stock catalogue work Is 6|d per hour. For apprentices the employers held that the weekly wages should be: First year 15s, second 2Cs t third 255, fourth 30s, fifth.4os. At the completion, of the fifth year a worker might be employed a» an improver for one year at Is 4ld per hour. The employees,/en the other hand, entered a counter-claim. • They held that the wages of journeymen should be 3s per hour said to any worker in charge .of four hands an extra 2s per eight-hour shift should be paid. They also claimed, that any boiler-' maker working with acetone gas, electric or air machinej should receive an extra 2s 61 per day. It was further held that double pay shoul • drule for all holiday work. The following minimum wages and rates for apprenticoa were claimed: First jear £1 10s; second. £1 ISs; third, £3; fourth £2 10s; fifth, £3. Clauses as in the present award -relating l to light, shelter, staging, ambulance, sanitary conveniences, apprentices, preference, salvage, outside work, heat and) under-ralo workers were agreed to. The question of . apprentices' pay for dirt work, heat money (in that no boiler maker should be compelled to work in any place Where a draught { was operating tinless paid at treble rates), general rates of pay, holidays, overtime, pieceworkers, improvers, and rail and steamer fares were i all referred to the Arbitration Court.