WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 14118, 22 July 1909, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

CONCILIATION COUNCIL. The Conciliation Council (Mr Triggs presiding) sat at Gore yesterday in connection with the dispute in the pold mining industry, the Otago and Southland Miners' Industrial Union being the applicants, and the Employers' Union and others respondents. The application of the sluice-re was heard lirst, and it was agreed to practically renew the old award for one year. Ae regards tho dredgers the old' award was agreed to, with the exception of the clauses relating to preference to unionists and the minimum wage, consideration of which was reserved till to-day. WHARF LABORERS' AWARD. At Napier yesterday Mr McCarthy, S.M., heard the case of the Inspector of Awards v. the Union Steam Ship Company, a claim of £25 for a breach of the Napier wharf laborers and stevedores' award. It seems that tome wharf laborers objected to resume woik before the expiration of the dinner hour, to which they were entitled under the award, and they were sent ashore. The Magistrate considered that the breach of the award had not been-a serious one. Probably the officers were anxious to get the ship away, and were angry when the men insisted on their full meal hour, instead of half an hour. He was of opinion that the men's request for a full hour, seeing that they had worked since six o'clock in the morning, was a ■reasonable one, and that it was made in a reasonable manner; that_both sides lost their tempers, and that aa a result the mien weiu dkiiiksed sooner than thev would have been had they not insisted uon tho privilege to which they were entitled under trie award. Judgment was given against the defendant company for £5 with costs (£5 12s). ' At a meeting of workers, held at Waipukurau (Hawke's Bay), the following resolution was adopted:—"That this meeting desire to express their confidence in Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., and urge all classes of workers, male and female, mental and manual, to band themselves together under his leadership in order to destroy land monopoly, and win for the nation the value of the land."