ENGINEERING TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 8

ENGINEERING TRADE.

• DISPUTE PARTIALLY SETTLED. THE EXEMPTIONS. A partial agrofeinoot has been arrived at in the dispute between tho Wellington branch of tho Amalgamated Engineers' Industrial Union of Workers and the employe™. The terms of lit« existing award were agreed to bo far an hours of work are concerned. OVERTIME AND HOLIDAY.*}. In addition to the terms of the existing award, Easter Monday, Labour Day, and King* Birthday arc to bo paid for at time and a-half. Work done on Sundays, Oood Friday, and ChrisUnaa Day i» to be paid for at double time rate. Easter Saturday ie aloo to be included in the lut of holiday*, but *hould work be required to be performed on that day, it is only to be paid /or at ordinary raten. If any worker works overtime exclusively in repairing any machinery u«cd iv the workshop in which he i* employed, ho is to be paid for euch overtime- at the Mine rate ns h» is paid during ordinary working hours. NIGHT WORK. Workers are only to be required to work on these shifts when the work is of an urgent and special character, btich a* breakdown, repairs, or slip work, and when they are so employed are to be paid 2s extra for each *h'ift. MINIMUM WAGE. No agreement was como to on this point. The union claimed Is 6d an hour ; the employers offered Is lid. The unions claimed for milling hands, Is 4£d au hour; slottern, drillers, and plainers, Is 3d an hour. Clause (c) in regard to apprentices was not agreed to. The employees' representatives were wiHing to strike out tlw provision as to employers dispensing with apprentice having to procure him another employer, if a limitation of apprentices was agreed to. PREFERENCE. No agreement was come to on the following clause : — "That preference bo given to the members of the Engineers' Industrial Union of Workers." EXEMPTIONS. The following agreement was arrived at in regard to exemptions :—: — In the cose of' such firms as the International Harvester Company, MasseyHarris Company, Reid and * Grey and others, who import manufactured machinery in whole or in part, the award is not to apply so far as the mere assembling of parts is concerned ; but is to apply to any repairing or permanent fixing of nuvli (Dacbiuery. Jn tho case of firms such as Balhnger and Company, Dunks and Son, who carry on business us plumbers and brass founders, they aro exempt from all tho conditions of this award, except where the class of work that is being carried out is substantially work usually performed by engineers and is recognised as a branch of that trade. Freezing companies arc exempt from the operations of the award so far as regards those persons who are employed in connection with the engines and machinery ; but the award applies to those who are employed in the erection of new engines, or in making alterations oe ropairs to existing plants. The Wellington Harbour Board is exempted from the of the award, provided© it *ball continue to pay the Mime rate of wages and ob«er\e the aame number of working hour* a* thv)M» in operation at the dnte of this agreement. The Union Steam Ship Company in exempted from the award co far* as its marine engineer* nn i concerned, nlso when this class of worker is employed achoro. Hntrick and Co., Wangnnui, are exempted from the award provided they pay their engineer* tho nageit agreed upon in the award. It won agreed to exempt the Wellington City Council from any obligation in }<e*pecl to Mie iogulatioiiß dm to working hour* and proftvomo clauses; but tho couiM-il i* bound by all other p-ro-vltiotu of ih* «.w*rd. Kitten •mploy«d ia-lh« •fectrk Ufhtiag ttrtion ar« net,

to be considered, within the scope of the agreement. Tho Council of Conciliation does not make any recommendation that tho application of tho Wellington Gas Company for exemption be acceded to. The questions of preference, limitation of apprentices, and wages will be referred to tho Arbitration Court.

Sitting in the Juvenile Court to-day Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. committed a six-year-old girl, who bad been living with a reputed drunkard, to the Wellington Receiving Home. A boy of eight was committed to the Stoke Orphanage, the father to contribute 4s weekly towards cost of maintenance. A mooting of the General Labourers' Union will bo held this evening for tho jjurporo of electing officers for tho ensuing year.