CONCILIATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 7

CONCILIATION

TIMBER WORKERS' DISPUTE. Mr. P. Hatty, Conciliation Commisfiionex, presided at the hearing yesterday of the dispute of the timber yard and saw-! mill workers. The assessors were :— For the union: Messrs. F. J. Lyons, T. T. Love, A- E. Roots. For the/ employers: Messrs. J. G. Smith, W. Hopkirk, and J. Hutchen. The men's demands, in the case of bush sawmills, consisted of a week of 48 jbours, all time in excess to be paid time and a quarter for two hours, and after that at time and a half. Double time ] was asked for New Year's Day, Good Friday, Christmius Day, Boxing Day, and Sundays. For two mills, a 46 hour •week was asked. Overtime rate de- ! mands were the same as above with doable time for Christmas Day/ Good Friday, and Sundays, and time and a half on N<w Year's Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day, and Boxing Day. A demand was also made for preference, and a minimum wage scale for the j various grades of la-boflr. i This afternoon Mr. Hally announced to a reportei that the employers, after hearing the other side, had come to the conclusion that they could not accede to any conditions other than those already Bet out in the present award. The reason they gave was the enormous expenses of running tho timber industry. The dispute will go to tb« Arbitration Court.