ARBITRATION COURT. BUTCHERS DISPUTE.
[BT TELBGBAPH.— PBBBB ASSOCIATION ] OHEISTCHURCH, 30tli June. The following award has been made by the Arbitration Court in, reference to the butchers' dispute: — Hours of work not to exceed .56 in any week ; hours to be regulated by the employers in advance. Minimum wage: First shopman, £3 10s per week ; second shopman, £3 ; first small goods man, £3 lOsj all other hands, £2 lls; casual workers, 11s 6d per day for Saturdays, 10s 6d per day for any other day. Boys employed (not more than one to every three men) to be paid at not less than the following rates:— Under 15 years, 129 6d per -week; from 15 to 16, 17s 6d; from 16 to 17, £1 ; from 17 to 18, £1 ss ; from 18 to 21, £1 10s. Provision, is also mad© for holidays, nuder rate workers, and preference to tmioniste. In a memorandum, the Court states that the union asked that the Christclivirch employers should supply their employees with meat in the same way as the .Wellington employers are boujid to. do.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue LXXVI, 1 July 1908, Page 10
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179ARBITRATION COURT. BUTCHERS DISPUTE. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue LXXVI, 1 July 1908, Page 10
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