WORK AND WAGES

Evening Star, Issue 11607, 22 July 1901, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES

.The recommendations of the Wellington Conciliation Board with regard to the printing machinists' case arc that all places other than Wellington, Napier, and Wanganui be classed as country offices. In the three towns named letterpress journeymen machinists are to get a minimum wage of £2 18b and lithographic £3 per week of forty-five hours; and in country offices £2 10s for the same hours. Country office arrangements as to overtime and holidays to remain as at present, but in the three' principal towns nine holidays ai-e given, including Easter Saturday. Country offices to arrange how the hours shall be worked, and country employers to arrange with their men as to the number of machines. The proportion of apprentices to be one boy to three men; all apprentices to be indentured for six years, and in the three towns named they shall start at '7s 6d per week, with a rise of 2s 6d every six months. The settlement is to hold good for two years. The city employers intimated that they would take tho disputu to the Arbitration Court. At, a meeting of representatives of eight South Canterbury unions at Timaru on Saturday night it was resolved to recommend their unions to form a local Trades and Labor' Council, and set up a committee, two from each, to foimulate a constitution and draw up rules. A motion recommending that efforts be made to have South Canterbury proclaimed a separate industrial district was negatived. It was resolved to convene a meeting of farm laborers next Saturday for the purpose of forming a union. CHRISTCHURCH, July 20. In the frozen meat companies' dispute the Conciliation Board's rectimmendation is that the rate of pay be Is an hour, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and Is 6d before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. In the furniture dispute, the Board recommended that forty-eight hours constitute a week's work; that tho minimum wage for mattress-makers and indoor hands be 8s 6d a day, and for all other branches of the trade a minimum of 9s 9d. In the hosiery dispute the. recommendation was that the hours of labor be forty-eight hours a week, with a minimum wage of 80s.