FORTY-HOUR WEEK

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 11

FORTY-HOUR WEEK

Applications Pouring

In To Court

FOR REDUCTION AND AGAINST

More Than 400 Expected

Applications for the reduction of hours to 40 a week by workers’ unions and associations and for extension beyond 40 on the part of employers’ organisations and individual industries are pouring in for bearing by the Court of Arbitration at its special sitting which will open in Wellington on Monday. It was stated yesterday that practically every industrial union of workers in New Zealand is applying to amend awards and industrial agreements by reducing the working nours to 40 a week and fixing the total week ly hours of work in factories at 40. A very large number of employers, in dividually or through their associa tions, will be applying for the extension of the hours to 44. In a number of instances, however, employers win not object to the Immediate applies tion of the 40 hours to their factories It is considered likely that in all the court will be asked to consider more than 400 applications—employers’ ano workers’—though the situation will b t simplified to some extent by the group ing of applications.

Employers’ Applications. Applications to be made by the employers under the Factories Amend ment Act totalled 45 up to yesterday afternoon and are as follow:— Paper mills; woollen mills; engineer ing trades; timber merchants; cloth ing trade;.hosiery mills; drapery trade (for workrooms operated in conjunction - with retail establishments): Wolfe and Sons, coopers; aerated water manufacturers; Colonial Am munition Co.; James and Wbimp. coachbuilders; Hoose Shipping CoLtd.; General Battery Co., Auckland: fertiliser companies; Dargaville Corporation Gasworks; bakers; milk ven dors; bus companies; fish merchants; tie ■ manufacturers; rubber mills; cement companies; grain, etc., merchants; small goods manufacturers; sailmakers, etc.; monumental masons;' electroplaters; horse-shoe manufacturers; fruit preservers; lime merchants: jewellers; plasterers; fruit and produce merchants; glass manufacturers ; tanners; motor-cycle mechanics; Castlecliffl Railway Co.; River Gravel Co.t milking machines; furnishers; N.Z. Insulators; plumbers; boot repairers; tailors; Lyttelton Harbour Board.

Workers’ Applications.

Applications to be made by unions or industrial associations for reduced working hours under the industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, totalling 74 up to yesterday afternoon, are as follow: —

Builders and general labours’ award, general labourers award (Wellington City Council), woollen mill employees’ award, New Zealand .Federated Boet Trades I.A. of Workers, Otago Hairdressers and Tobacconists’ Assistants I.U. of Workers, Kaikorai Cable Tramways I.U. of Workers (Dunedin), Otago Timber Yards and Sawmills Employees’ I.U. of Workers, Amalgamated Society of Shop Assistants’ I.U. of Workers (Dunedin), Wellington Builders and General Labourers’ I.U. of Workers, carpenters and joineis’ award, carpenters and joiners’ (ship work) award, tanners and fellmongers’ award (Otago), butter factories ’award (Canterbury), Are brigadesmeu’s agreement (Christchurch), plumbers and gasfitters’ award (Canterbury and Otago and Southland), gasworks’ employees’ award (Christchurch), plasterers’ award (Canterbury), enginedrivers’, etc., award (Canterbury), tallow, etc., award (Otago), timber yards, sawmills and coal yards award (North Canterbury), tailors and tailoresses’ award (Canterbury), drivers’ award (Christchurch Ci'v Council), drivers’ industrial agreement (North Canterbury local bodies), drivers’ industrial agreement (Tunaru Borough Council), bakers’ drivers’ award (North Canterbury), drivers’ award (Canterbury), clothing trades employees’ award (Northern —females only—Wellington, Canterbury and Otago and Southland), dressmakers and milliners (Northern, Wellington, Canterbury anti Otago and Southland), shirt, white and silk workers ’award (Northern —female—Wellington, Canterbury and Otago and Southland), timber yards and sawmills’ employees’ award (Wellington 23 miles radim). traction, stationary and locomotive en-gine-drivers’ award (Wellington), brewery, malthouse and bottling-house labourers’ award (Wellington 70 miles radius), drivers, ihotor and horse award, Wellington (except Hawke’s Bay and Rangitikei district), drivers’ industrial agreement (Wellington Citv Corporation), bakers and pastrycooks’ award (Otago and Southland), enginedrivers’ agreement (Kaitangata), plasterers’ award (Otago), boot repairers’ award (Dunedin, 12 miles radius), drainers’ agreement (Dunedin), Otago brick-makers’, etc., award, coachworkers’ award, lime-workers award (Otago and Southland), engine-drivers’ ,etc,. award (Otago and Southland), electrical workers’ award (Otago), linesmen’s award (Dunedin Corporation), linesmen’s award (Otago), metal workers’ assistants’ award (Otago and Southland); Milburn Lime and Cement Company’s award (Otago), Dunedin tramway employees’ agreement (Otago), rope and twine spinners’ award (Otago and Southland), canister workers’ agreement (Otago), paper mills award (Otago and Southland), timber yards, etc., award (Otago and Southland), North Canterbury local bodies’ labourers’ industrial agreement, Christchurch pumlce-concrete-goods makers’ industrial agreement, Christchurch City Council labourers’ award, Canterbury lime and' cement workers' award, Canterbury quarry workes* award, South Canterbury builders, contractors and general labourers’ award, North Canterbury builders, contractors and general labourers’ award, South Canterbury local bodies’ labourers’ industrial agreement, Christchurch City Council • firemen, stokers’ and greasers’ industrial agreement, Dunedin printers, etc., award, linotype mechanics’ award, Christchurch tramways agreement, Wellington Aerated Water employees’ award, Wellington plumbers’ award, New Zealand passenger transport drivers’ award, Motor and horse-drivers’ award (Gisborne, Wanganui, Rangitikei and Nelson), Dunedin local bodies’ drivers' award, Canterbury electric power boards’ award, Nelson, Westland and Canterbury electrical workers’ award, Canterbury cycle wokers’ award, New Zealand motor mechanics’ award.