WORK AND WAGES.
An application for reference of an industrial* dispute between the Auckland Master Painters and the Auckland llouttn Painters’ Industrial Union of Workers has been filed. Tbe union a.sk that forty-four hours shall constitute a week’s work; that all journeyman painters be paid Is 3d pci hour, which shall be the minimum wage; that workmen, over the age of fifty years may accept a minimum rate of Is per hour; ihat all boys be legally indentured or apprenticed, and shall not exceed one to every lour journeymen or fraction of four.
‘The Arbitration Court bad been set in motion to colh-et Is 4(1,” said Mr T. Ballinger at the Industrial Association’s dinner at Wellington. He deprecated such a proceeding over a trivial amount. “Respectable employers,” said Mr J. P. Luke, " had been brought before the Court, for a- technical breach, and tiued £l, with costs up to £ls. and they had been told that in the matter of costs they had been lucky to get olf as they did/'
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Evening Star, Issue 12028, 28 October 1903, Page 7
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171WORK AND WAGES. Evening Star, Issue 12028, 28 October 1903, Page 7
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