SLAUGHTERMEN'S CONDITIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 116, 17 May 1907, Page 6

SLAUGHTERMEN'S CONDITIONS.

KfeW TERMS IN" AUCKLAND. [BY TKLKGIIAPH. — rRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The agreement betweon tho Auckland slaughtermen and their omployers has boon approved by tho Arbitration Court. It provides that tho slaughtormen work eight hours daily between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., with a payment of sixpence) for each <half hour worked before 6 a.m. in addition to the pieco-work rate ; overtime to bo paid as time and quartor, on holidays, time and a half. The minimum rates are as follows :—Freezing sheep and lambs 235, log of 'mutton snoop 20s, pottori 18s por 100; rams other than ram lambs, 4d each ; bullocks, 2s onch ; pigs Is each ; calves, present rates. Provision is made for under rate workers and for preference to unionists, but tho latter provision will not compel an employer to dismiss any men now 'omployed by him. With rogard to matters in dispute which tho' court had not time to deal with, Mr. ■ Bust, ' representing tho slaughtormen, has mado application under sections 5 and 62 of the Act to tho Qovornor-in-Council for tho appointment of a special Board of Conciliation to consider those matters. Tho board will consist of two butchers' employees and two master butchors, and' the present chairman of the Board of Conciliation. _ This is stated to be the first application of tho kind yet mado.