INDUSTRIAL AWARDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 685, 9 December 1909, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS.

. OPERATIVE BOOTMAKERS, (By Telegraph-Press Association.) ■■'~•■ _, Christchurch, December 8. The award of the Arbitration Court in the Christchurch Operative Bootmakers' Union caso provides that all workers doing handsewn work shall be paid not less than Is. O.Jd. per hour,-and all workers coming within tho scope of tho award.shall:be'paid not less than •Vi.'i, 110r -> r ' ' Au employer may arrange with tile workers to do piece-work. An ordinary working consis); of,forty-fi vo hours. Ihe log shall bo: Men's,half r soling and heeling ■nvcttcd, Is. 9d.; mechino-sewn, .. 2s'. - ; handsown (ordinary), 2s. 6d.;; finished shank, 2s ' ?-V. P™*? l '* o ". „ 3s. pump turned stitch, 2s. Gd.; flat stitch, 2s. 9d.; rivetted .Is. 3d.; maehiiie-sewn, Is. Cd.; hand-sewn, 25, : famshed shank, 2s. 3d.; prick-stitch, 2s. Cd ; youths,-/-l rivetted,'ls.; macHinb-sewn, Js. 3d'-' hand-sewn, Is, 9d. All heels, i men's and women s, Gd.; 7-1, 4d.; rebuilding ■ heels, Gd extra; jesewii patches, 3d., to Gd.; solution,' Gd. to 9d.; stitching by ; machine, 3-G, Id. and -o.; vamp, mens, women's, and vonths' Is (id.; caps, mpn s, Id: ,to 6d.; women's, and mens, 4d. to Gd.; ;womcn's and youths, 2d • children's, Id.; all rubber heels, Gd!.men's hand-sewn work, 125.; patent and coloured,'ls extra; Riding boots, Is. oxlra; women's hand sewn, 9s. Gd.; patent and coloured, taffi'l riding boots Is extra; women's boots, pumps Bs.; women's shoo pumps; 3s. Gd. Prices for operations not provide] for shall bo sot ° d | emp?oyS C " l WMt,,,S h^ Cm the Uuioa :*4

"'\. .STEVEDORES;.' : ''/"'•'■ ~., ' '',' Lyttelton, December 8. At tho : Magistrate's Court this morning, KinM ?;-Co ! .Wre-chai8ed with' com-' nutting a breach of a clause of tho Lyttolton stevedores' award by failing to men in front of thef Coronation '-Hall?Theev donee ..showed thatthe two men .whoso names were called were not present at-tho hall but St,°„ 7 rk -%.«*«««»».'/notwithstanding that tho clause,is designed for tho mutual convcmence; of employers and men. Mr. Bishop ■m«,"',.T d i, tho C IJ IX v! "IP matter, was that the men who.know they were to' work for tho firm ought to come to the hall,' or abuse would creep in. The question" was whether what took place was sufficient compliance with the award. Ho must hold it was „ot. In view of tho award having nearly run out, and nothing of tho sort coming.: up previously, ho imposed a hue of 10s. on each of.the two charges, with