ELECTRICAL WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 13

ELECTRICAL WORKERS

NEW> AWARD SOUGHT

A meeting of tho Conciliation Council was held today fto hoar an application by electrical workers for a new award. Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, presided. The workers' assessors were Messrs. A.' Curlowj A. Bryant, B. Jackson, E. Hoskins, and H. E. Swindell (agent). The employers' assessors woro Messrs. H. ii. Hollands, C. J. Lenihan, W. Cederholm, C. Camp, and W. J. Mountjoy (agent). Tho workers claimed that journoymon bo paid not loss than 2s 6d an hour. Additional pay was demanded for workers employed about a ship's boiler, overhauling undorgcar of tramcars, installing or overhauling, storage batteries, (other than motor-car batteries), work in freezing chambers, and repairing damage done by fiio where tho worker comes into contact with charred material. Any worker working about an engine-room or " ship's boiler where the temperature is over 110 dogrees Fahrenheit shall be paid double ordinary rates. It was claimed that forty hours Bhould constitute a week's ,work. Special provisions "were set out. in respect to special businesses and local authorities. Other claims related to overtime, suburban work, and country work. EMPLOYERS' COUNTERCLAIMS. Tho employers' counterclaims in eluded the following:—Journeymen to be paid not less than Is IOJd an hour; workers employed about a ship's boiler, overhauling unctergear of tramcars, workers- in,freezing chambers, etc., to bo paid Is 2d a day in addition to ordinary wages. In the case of any tramway authority it should be left to the foreman to decide whether by "not any particular work done by .its workers was dirty work, with the right of any worker to appeal to v the engineer. Any worker working about an engine-room or ship's' boiler where the temperature was over 115 degrees Fahrenheit should be paid time and a half ordinary rates. Practically the whole of the morning sitting was taken up in discussing tho claims for exemption made by a. largo number of parties who had been cited. ' The Council then went into committee, and is now considering the claims of the parties.