WORK AND WAGES.
_The Wellington Conciliation Board have given a decision in the coaehbuilders' dispute. The chief recommendations were aB follow:—All competent workers shall be paid not less than Is 3d per hour ; a week's work to be forty-eight hours, Saturday consisting of fonrand a-quarter hours; boystobe indentured as apprentices for five years, with six months' probation, the proportion of boys to "be one to three journeymen or fraction thereof; the number of laborers to be unrestricted; piecework not to be allowed; prefererce of employment to be given to members of the union. The agreement (which iB to be signed by the 24th inst.) is to exist for twelve months. The president of the union stated that he would advise the union to acceDt the. recommendation.
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Evening Star, Issue 11167, 16 February 1900, Page 1
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126WORK AND WAGES. Evening Star, Issue 11167, 16 February 1900, Page 1
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