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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1159, 21 June 1911, Page 6

A new form of preference clause lias been evolved by the Conciliation Council, wliich dealt with the Wellington boilermakers' dispute. An employer is to bo allowed to engage any boilermaker lio chooses, provided that within eno week of the dale of his engagement, the worker shall join the Boilermakers' Union. Tho recommendations of the council also include a 13 hours' week- and minimum wages yf Is. 4UI. and Is. 3d. an hour for first-class and" second-class boilormakers respectively, and Is. an hour for pipemakers, the terms are on a par with those recently accepted by the parties at Cliristclmrchl and it is hoped to make them the basis of awards which will secure uniformity of conditions throughout the Dominion. The council which sat hero was only empowered to deal with Wellington, but it is intended to cilo parlies throughout tho Wellington industrial district. The assessors, who sat in Wellington, under the chairmanship of Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, were Messrs. J. B. I-anronson, of Christchurch, and D. Bobe.rtson, of Wellington (for tho employers), and .Messrs. ,T. Mooro and .T. O'Brien (for the employees). Ex. omplions were refused to the Wellington Gas Co., tho Gear Meat Co., tho Wellingt'jn Meat Uxpcrt Co., tho Wellington Harbour Board, and members of tho Welling, ton Builders' Association,