FELLMONGERY AND TANNING

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21966, 15 December 1936, Page 16

FELLMONGERY AND TANNING

♦ DISPUTE IN CONCILIATION COUNCIL With the possibility of a Domamwide award being agreed upon, the® pute in the Conciliation Council jsterday relating to the tanning *= fellmongering branches of the Cass’ bury Freezing Works and Keas Trades industries, was adjourned .& die. Agreement on hours of overtime, and several minor clai* was reached, but the rates of wap are still in dispute. The el P?"‘ sought the Auckland rates, wudl Jr lower than the present *ates exi£3 in Canterbury, and the employeei * fered to accept the rates rhUitg Canterbury in 1931 worked ou 44-hour week basis. The employers’ assessors were S. G. Bowron, S. L. Wright andDA Macdonald, while the employee? sessors were Messrs C. O’Flahertv. C. Webster. J. R ° bel ?' H. G. Kilpatrick tageni). Mr s. chie. Conciliation Commissioner, psided. . . The Parties’ Claims . Both schedules of claims were on a 44-hour week, the employers a» ing that work should start al and continue to 5 pan- : ,« to Friday inclusive, and from * « to noon on Saturday. asked that work should_ start at a.m., and continue till o P-™-first five week-days, and from a.m. till noon on Saturdays. 1agreed to start work at tne although a start could be a.m. if the union and the wnP*- £ agreed. Overtime was agreed time and a half for ordinary worsw and rate and a half for picce-wo "You have much more Health Department than we M'Jwe have approached them times,” said Mr Kilpatrick. wh cussing a clause in the employ mands for an hour to clean up’ sheds each week. Mr Ritchie had that this clause was hardly one award and was part of the auij health inspectors. ... of Mr Burnand. an employee or the companies bound by the said that the conditions in one■ sheds where hides were cu * „ _- c »i led the men to threaten a meeting, a thing unpreccden.ee history of that firm. Tae sxne~ been very obnoxious. _ One overseers at the works had o - preached, but the matter had n completely cleared up-