CANTERBURY LABOURERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 498, 4 May 1909, Page 5

CANTERBURY LABOURERS.

'■;, ;'.:':.■ : ; ,'. 1 ..;;-- . \0 -■ -''-',' V... -.-, ■/ i INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE SETTLED. : • : ' Inr TELEOEAI'ir— PHKBS ASSOCUTIO'I.) ■'.. ' -i ; . : '--. ; :;-- ' ; .s-: Christchurch, May 3. ; ' ■ Ine agreement arrived at by the parties in' the general labourers' dispute has been lied. A memorandum appended to the award states that it deals speciiically witff building trade .labourers,-,and is intended to apply also .to; workers employed by .local'bodies, contractors and quarry owners, and to workers employed by..other employers when doing work similar to that,done by local bodies,: contractors, and quarry .owners. : Tho conditions willnotapply_to any work done in the ordinary course of farm work.;...- The. Christchnrch Drainago Boar* is exempt from, the operations of the award as far as its' permanent staff is concernediiandas long as it is.working under ? r^? nt m- ondltl? , ns - ' iV simila y condition applies to the, Timaru Borough Council. "A : The.agreement is to commence from Juno 4, and remain m force for three years. It will apply to the; whole of the Canterbury Industrial.Distnct.'-In tunnel works/the , minimum; wage Vof: tunnel' men and timber men.-.is-'not ; less than la.' 3d. per hour As to quarries, quarrymen, hammer and drill' men, crusher men,: spawlers,- platelayers, and asphalt misers,- ,1e..-Id:, per hour. General labourers, la. -per hour.- -Building worksMen in, charge; of .derricks, all scaffolders men in attendance on bricklayers Is lid par hour. ; Overtime is to be paid at the rate of -.time '.and ia quarter for the first four hours, and ; tnno and a half ■ afterwards, and New Year's Day, Easter Monday Labour Day, Show Day; and Boxing Day' Double ijirno is to be pafd fof work on Christmas Day, Good Friday,-and Sundays '.'