CLOTHING TRADES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 21, 25 July 1939, Page 11

CLOTHING TRADES

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

A Conciliation Council met today to consider conditions of employment for clothing trades employees in the Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland districts. Mr. M. J. Reardon presided, and the parties were represented as follows: — Employees: Miss A. E. Cossey and Messrs. W. S. Moxsom (Auckland), E. Butcher (Wellington), R. Chapman and Miss J. Runciman (Dunedin), Mrs. Nicholls and Messrs. A. McFarlane (Christchurch), and E. B. Newton (agent). Employers: Messrs. C. N. Cathie, W>, Kerr, A. W. Nisbet (Wel-^ lington), R. J. Duncan, A. M. Hollander (Christchurch),. E. E. Nicolson (Dunedin), W. J. Jaggs (Auckland), D. I. Macdonald (agent).

The .employees' claims were for a 40-hour, five-day wages for female apprentices and improvers to be from £1 to £2 5s weekly; journeywomen to receive £3 5s weekly; females engaged in sorting, ticketing, boxing, and diltribution work, £1 to £3 5s weekly; first-class chart cutter, £7 17s 6d weekly; second-class, £6 17s 6d; stock cutter and trimmer, £5 17s 6d; examiner; £5 17s 6d; pressers, £5 17s 6d weekly; youths other than apprentices, £1 5s to £3 17s 6d weekly up till the third year, thereafter £5 17s 6d; male casual workers, 3s 3d an hour; male machinists, £5 17s 6d weekly. Overtime at the rate of Is 6d an hour was claimed, and nine statutory holidays and two weeks' annual holiday on full pay were sought. The employers offered the existing award as their counter-proposals.