PLASTERING TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 101, 2 May 1939, Page 4

PLASTERING TRADE

DOMINION AWARD

HEARING OF DISPUTE

Representatives of the employers and workers in the solid plastering industry met in conciliation council today to consider the making of a Dominion, award for the industry. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. M. J. Reardon) presided.

The workers, who were the applicants, were represented by the following assessors:—-Messrs. L. Wolfe, D. Wolfe, L. J. Barker (Auckland), L. R. Tremewan, J. Hallam, E. C. Weavers (Wellington), and J. Purtell, agent.

The employers were represented by Messrs. H. P. Coleman, W. H. Smith, R. E. Kent (Wellington), W. M. Angus (Napier), H. Purdie (Auckland), J. A. Bridges (Hamilton), and H. J. Bishop, agent: ■ ' "

The main points in dispute were as follows, the applicants' claims being given, with the employers' counterclaims in parentheses:—

Wages, 3s 3d per hour . (2s 10|d)f worker in charge of outside jobs,'2s 6d per day extra (Is); overtime, time and a half for the first two hours, then double time (time and a half for first four hours); holidays, the applicants asked for January 2 and the Sovereign's birthday in addition to the holidays set out by the employers, and also an annual holiday of two weeks on full pay; country work, 5s 6d per day for seven days a week in lieu of board (5s 2d per day for six days); suburban work, lj-mile radius from G.P.O. (2 miles from specified central points); height, wet, heatr dirty, or coloured work, 6d' per hour additional and double rates for working in heat above 110 degrees (4d per hour for coloured work and work on floors and steps, 3d per hour for height work but not on patent safety scaffold); wet weather, pay for four hours (nil); meal money, 2s (Is 6d); ten_ of award, one year (two years).