ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

■■ WORKERS i'.QUOTE EMPLOYERS , : '/" ! , ■ .•..•■'-:; ;■■>'; MINUTES,,'..' ■..■■ .... ; v .., '/' ; ri ; Auckland,. October 22; , ' -At••■■'the- , Arbitrati,oh,' Court ~yesterday.''.; the Auckland Operative Indus-, ; -" : trial Union : of ..Workers, submitted, claims-for ~. a forty-four-hour, .week;, jourrieymqiOiStone-;.',,, masons to bo paid not less than Is. 6d. per.; hour on all -work,,contracted- for : after the; coming iuto:-force- of- the. award;-, .piecework ~< ■to be paid i at. Is. 3d. per. foot for six ■inches,- , Is. Cd. for eight'inches, ls. : 9d.for.ten iiichos, and"2s.- for twelve inches; overtime- to bo paid ■aftho-'rate' of:time; and a.qnartcr for-.-.-the first four hours,' and timo rand. a-.half.-.. afterwards, 1 .with-double-pay on Sundays : aai ~. on six holidays, during tlie year, lhe usual; : under-rate and preference'.clauses ; are in-., eluded. The wages asked for apprentices are: 7s. 6d. for ■■■■tho first year, 125. : 6 d; for the ... ; - second, 17s". 6d/ fon'tho third, •225.-.6d.: 1 f0r.-.: the fourth,-and 275.' 6d> , for: the fifth and last year; all apprentices -to be ■ ■ legally indentured for. five years jithe propor- . tion of apprentices not to exceed one to :.' every three journeymen-; or; fraction tuereot. In addition to the Auckland Builders Asso-, ciation, twenty-one : parties are cited asparties' to the.award. ' ■'..',,' ".,:'',"['. In opening the. case, Mr;' Rosser said .that • tho Union was'comparatively of recentlorma-'.."■ tion, and. this' was. the first .application; tor .- ■''"'Mr Morris', . objected that tho raising of the rate of wages, considering the small quantity of;work,, would; deter-tho work increasing.'.Eycivnmy,.the., presents rate of. wages' was too bgh, and. certain work could account of .the-cost. ,He opposed,thf pre- ■„ forenco clause... He thought.it..unfaar and ~ argument, Uho minutes',;: of the Employers', Association were producca. They showed clearly that a resolution had .... . been passed accepting the terms asked for. in ~ the men's demands. ... .; - •.-.• ■■• >, .'.■"•'. ! : This practically disposed of the .whole . matter, and■. the. Court,, without evidence, decided to, make,tho award or a term of two years,, in accordance with -the. ~ ■%onti£fMr°trris' pr Scedauscas ; brigandago : and^ack. mailing: .- . ■ : . ■' t '■■■''-■ - ; - v '