TRAMWAY MEN

Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 3

TRAMWAY MEN

WANT A DOMINION AWARD. The tramway men throughout the Dominion want an! award that will apply to the whole of New Zealand; The Wellington tramways award having expired, the men placed their proposals before the City Council yesterday afternoon. The following is the proposed minimum rate of wages payable to the several classes of labor in the tramway services throughout the Dominion : Motorinen First year’s service. Is per hour; over* one and under two, Is 2d ; over two and under three, Is 2^d; over three years, Is 3d. Conductors (electric or cable) —First year. Is per hour - ; over one and under two. Is Ojd ; over two and under three, Is Id ; over three years, Is LJd. Pointsmen, £3 per week; switchmen. Is l£d per hour; switchmen’s attendants, 9d per hour; trackmen, Is l£d per hour ; permanent way repairers, Is 3d per hour; bondranen, Is 3d per hour; general laborers, Is Ijrt per hour ; shed storekeepers. Is 3d per hour ; assistant storekeepers, Ls ljd per hour; car cleaners, car oilers, am] car greasers, Is lid per hour; car examiners, Is 3d per hour; brake adjusters and controller men, Is 3d per hour; car equipment adjusters, Is 3d per hour; pitmen and truckmen, Is lid per hour; carshed handy men, Is lid per hour; power-house leading firemen, Is 3d per hour ; power-house greasers, Is 3d per hour; power-house firemen, handy men, and trimmers. Is 2d per hour*; electrical or mechanical fitters, Is 6d per hour ; electrical or armature wiremen, Is 4id per hour; fitter's’ laborers. Is lid per hour; switchboard attendants, Is 6d per hour; boys, first year, 6s per day; Second, 7s; third, 8s; leading linesmen, Is 4id per hour; linesmen and emergency linesmen, Is 3d per hour; drivers of emergency or tower waggons. Is lid per hour; blacksmiths, 10s 6d per day; blacksmiths’ strikers, 9s per day ; engmesmiths, Is 6d per hour; enginesmiths’ strikers, Is lid per hour; turners, Is 6d per hour; plumbers, Is 4d per hour; coachworkers, Is 4d per -hour. Workers under twentyone years shall be paid the following minimum rate of wages per week; —Under seventeen, 15s; over seventeen and under eighteen, £1; over eighteen and under nineteen, £1 Ss; over nineteen and under twenty, £1 10s; over twenty and under twenty-one, £llss. This latter scale shall not apply to motonnen, brakesmen, gripmen, conductors, apprentices, or to any youths outside the workshop. Men working continuously on night shift are to be paid time and and daymen on night shift time and a-half; overtime and Sunday shifts to be paid for at double rates. Power-house firemen, greasers, handymen, and trimmers when employed cleaning boilers, etc., are to be paid 3d per hour over and above as dirt money. The average of engine-drivers on tramway services shall bo lls per night shift of eight hours.

Further clauses are included dealing with Sunday work, overtime! rates, free passes for permanent; workers, receipts for all moneys paid in, and holidays. The danse relating to preference to unionists says:—“lt shidl be a condition of employment that employees should join and remain members of the union. In default, an employee is to bo dismissed. Anybody voluntarily resigning from the union shall be liable to dismissal, and receive a notification from the tramways manager that ho is so liable, and unless ho rejoins the union within one week from the date of notice he will be dismissed.”