SADDLERS' DISPUTE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 7

SADDLERS' DISPUTE.

9 A dispute has been filed by the Saddlers' Union of Wellington, and will come before~Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, in due course. About 120 employer saddlers, carters, bag and trunk makers are concerned. A fortyeight hour week is a] so payment of double time for holidays and Sunday work. It is asked that three classes of workers only shall be recognised, namely, journeymen and jonrneywomen, apprentices, and female stitchers. Journeymen to be paid Is 3d an hour, and piecework be paid under a log attached to the schedule. Provision is made for under-rate workers under certain conditions, also for tb> employment of apprentices, who are to serve five years. Apprentices are limited to one to every three journeymen or fraction of three. A saddler is defined as "any person engaged in the manufacturing or repairing of saddles, bridles, harness, machine belting, military accoutrements, horse and cow covers, strapping, leggings, or any class of leather work that a saddler is usually employed at ; provided that when a saddler is employed to make horse covers he shall be paid a saddler's wages ; but if a canvas sewer is employed by a harnessmaker to sew the canvas in making horse or cow "covers, he may be paid canvas sewers* wages. All bags, portmanteaux, and trunk makers to be included in this award."