ANOTHER TRADE DISPUTE.

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 126, 24 November 1899, Page 5

ANOTHER TRADE DISPUTE.

A list of items in dispute with employens has been filed with the Clerk of Awards by the Wellington Coach Workers' Union for reference to the Conciliation Board. The items include the following:—That all competent journeymen coachworkers shall be paid a minimum wage of £3 per week, the wages to be paid to Uiose not capable of earning the minimum wage to be decided by a committee. That the week's work consist of 47 hours, with specific rates to be paid for all overtime. All boys to be legally indentured for five years as apprentices, preceded by three months' probation, the proportion of boys to men employed to be one boy to three men 'or fraction of three in body and carriage making, wheelers, and painting, one apprentice and two labourers to every three journeymen in the smithing department, and an apprentice shall be entitled to a fire after he has served three years. Present arrangements not to be interfered with. That piecework shall not be allowed, and that members of the Union shall have preference of employment. That employers and members of the Union shall equally be liable for breaches of the agreement which the Board is asked to frame. The hearing of \he dispute is fixed for the 4th prox.

The fortnightly meeting of the British Israel Association was he'd last night, Beveral interesting papers being given.