QUESTION OF WAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 14

QUESTION OF WAGES

TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE

COURT RESERVES DECISION

«,ThA 1 dispute caaie before the Arbitration Court yesterday, when Mr. Just.cc Frazer presided. Associated with liim on the Bench were Messrs. W Scott (employers' representative) and A. L. Monteith (workers representative) Appearing for the employers," Mr. B. L. Hammond Baldwin reply to the employees' eontenUons, that the industry was not in a position to stand an increase in wages. Ihis was especially true in connection with the provincial newspapers, many of.which were suffering from competition with the metropolitan papers. The workers were tv ell paid, especially piecework operators, working week" had eDJ'oyed a sholt Theptincipalclaungof the workers were as iollow.—Jlinimumtate of pay, (a) for ail day machine compositors (on newspapers) within a radius of ten miles of all rt %-nn Tft n i~Wltll a P°P"lation of more than 2000, £6 los per week; (b) for all day machine compositors, employed on newspapers in towns witt a population of 2500 and under, £6 10s; (cf jobbing machine compositors, 20 per cent, extra; (c) casual machine compositor* 4s per hour for day Z™ A Su Pe? hS Ur for n'el>t work; stone and bulk hands employed on any newspaper published in airtoV^s with a Efh mOTe than 2500: K«t stone hand (by arrangement with the "house") ;" second stone hand, £6 15s; other stone hands and bulk hands and machine correc- £&■ ? fi 1 .aU nleht,^ork 20 per cent. Zt l > 9?m fi "T 5! ™t}t a PoP«lation of under 2500: first stone hand, £6 10s; all eor'ctorr^? 3^ S machine The counter-proposals of the employers were as folIow:-Minimum rate of pay: Lmotype mtertype, and linogi- a ph machines, for day operators in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, ami wjthin a radius of ten miles of those cities £ol0s; for day operators in towns outside oE those cities, £5 ss. Monotype machines: For day operators in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin c?}Lm^ 1V a i adili 3 o£ 10 mileS of those cities, £5 7s; for day operators in towns outside those cities, £5 2s; monoline, typograph, barotype, simplex:, and other composing machmes; for day operators employed m cities ami within a radius of ten miles of such cities, and towns with a population of over 10,000, £5 2s 6d; for day operators in towns with a population of 10,000 and under, £4 15s; night workT'lO 10 Per cent, extra, with a minimum

After_ hearing evidence, the Court re served its decision.