CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3185, 8 September 1917, Page 12

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

TRAMWAYS DISPUTE. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. W. H. Hagger, sat yesterday to hear the dispute between the Wellington Tramway Employees , Union and the Wellington City Corporation. The assessors were: For the employees, Messrs. A. Black, H. Garter, and B. A. Evans; for the employers, Messrs. W. H, .Morton, D. Jl'Gillivray, and M. Cable. Mr. J. Hutchison appeared as agent for the employees. Tho parties agreed that employees should work the following hours:—Motormen, and conductors, 8 hours per day for sis days'; all night workers'employed in the sheds 8 hours per night for six nights; linesmen aud linesmen's assistants, 8| hours on five days and i{ hours on Saturdays; emergency Jinesmen, 8 hours per day, with, the proviso that the employer should have tho right to call for one hour more at ordinary .rate's; blacksmiths' strikers, hours similar to those fixed in the engineers' award for blacksmiths; permanent way repairers, 4G hours 30 minutes per week—on ■five days, 8£ .hours, and on Saturdays 1 hours; trackmen, 45 hours per week on six days; track cleaner employees, 8 hours per. night, commencing from 11 p.m., except on Satnrdays; day pitmen and shed labourers, SI hours per day on five days and i!i hours on Saturday; tower wagon drivers (overhead), 8 hours per day, with tho proviso that the employ-jr should have the right to call for one hour extra at ordinary rates; car-shed employees on night shift, 8 hours on six nights of t'lie week; car examiners;'B hours per shift. A number of minor matters were r.lso agreed upon. The question of wages, which was most disputed, was held over till to-day..