WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 14635, 3 August 1911, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES.

CONCILIATION COUNCIL,

The Conciliation Council sat at Inverrargill yesterday, Mr J. I!. Trigge presiding. The first 'business was the consideration of a suggested agreement between tho Slaughtermen’s Union and the various employers. In this case the employers are applicants, and it is tho first case of tho kind in Southland. Clauses relating to hours of work and over-time were adopted on the basis of the Wellington agreement, and small concessions were granted relating to tho rates of pay as to dead animals and potted lambs. The proportionof learners to journeymen was fixed at cue to eight. Tho term of the- award is irom Angnet 1, 1911, to January, 1912. The Commissioner then took the first section of a dispute between tho recent lyformed General Laborers’ Union and employers. An agreement was come to relating to builders’ laborers. Of nine clauses in the claims by tho union three wero adopted as proposed, three. were amended, ami three relating to hours of labor, minimum wages, and piecework ■were referred to tho Arbitration Court. A meeting was held in Dunedin yesterday of men employed in cheese-making establishments in Otago and Southland. There were about 50 present, and it was unanimously decided to establish a union of workers, to be called the Otago _ and Southland Cheesemakers" Industrial Union of Workers, and to. take steps to have the organisation registered under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Mr John" Saw ere (Edendale) was appointed president.-and- Mr A, Milne (Mataura) vice-president.