IRON INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 8

IRON INDUSTRY

' MOULDERS'/DISPUTE, i

The series of disputes connected with the iron industry, of the Dominion was continued before the Conciliation' Com-, missioner yesterday, with the, moulders' branch of the trade.- >I-- •: , • Mr. W. Newton (Conciliation Commis; sioner) presided, and the assessors were: ; For the employers, Messrs. E. E. Stone-,, banks/ James Cable, and D. Robertson, with Mr: W. • A". Grenf ell as agent, ;■ For ' the Wellington Union/Messrs.'J. Ferguson, F^Keene, and P. M'lndoe. ; ;; .;.; ■The'principal demands of the employ-; ers were:—Hours:; Forty-seven hours to constitute a week's work, 8£ hours to, be worked on five diys and 4£ hours on the day of the usual haif-holiday.i Over-time-to be paid for at the tote of .time and' a quarter for the. first two hours worked, and time and' a half thereafter for the next two hours) and -double time between then and the. ordinary ;time' for commencing work next morning. '■ W,ages (minimum): Journeymen; mouldered Is Bd', per hour, machine moulders; Is '6s. per, hour..-.-. .. .■'• '/.. ■■' '■ ":' ■ s '■.'!■,.;■•.-■'-:;y The main counter-claims of the union were;—(l) The' ordinary forking hours shall be forty hours per week of "eight. hours per, day.fronv -Monday, to ;Friday Inclusive, the hours' of " starting , arid ■ ceasing work' to' be between "7-3Q a.m. and 5 p.m., with one break ..of not less; than forty-five minutes for lunch;' (2) the. wages of journeymen ' iron and brass moulders, steel moulders, plate'moulders,'■■' machine moulders arid coyer-makers shall. be riot lessjthan 2s6d per h'our;j(3)"alL calls back to be paidtat double time till the job is finished.' ■.'/' ':■"■■ „,'■'■■•.■". ['■ " '

iThe proceedings were in committiee, at the desire of ithe parties. Agreement .was reached on a' number ..'of minor clauses, but the main" points, wages,, hours, and, the .Jike,'were referred to the Arbitration Court;. ':"'■' :-:\', ;'■''''■:. •'■'•'■ '-.'. '■■':'.'-..; "•'