CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1196, 3 August 1911, Page 5

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

SITTING AT INV'ERCARGILL.

. (By Ijplegraph.—Preis Association.) Invorcargill, August 2. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Triggs) started hera to-day what promises to bo a busy session of the Conciliation Council. Six hours were spent in! consideration of a suggested agreement between the Slaughtermen's Union and tho various employers. In this case the employers arc the applicants, this being the first caso of the kind in Southland. The clauses relating to hours of work and overtime were adopted on the basis of the "Wellington agreement. Small concessions were granted relating to" rates of pay as to dead animals and potted lambs. The proportion of learners to journeymen was fisc<l at one to eight, and the term of award from August 1, 1011, to January 1. ;1912. The Commissioner was also engaged in the first section of u dispute between the recently-formed General Labourers' Union and the employers. An agreement' was come to relating to builders' labourers of nino clauses. In the claims by tho union three were adopted as proposed, and three amended, and three relating to hours of labour, minimum wages, and piecework, were referred to tho Arbitration Court.