INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

[Per United Pbess Association.] WELLINGTON, June 8. A, sitting of the Conciliation Council was held to-day to consider the claims of the Wellington Woollen Mills Employees' Union for a new -award granting higher wages and improved conditions. The employers desired that the dispute be treated as a Dominion one, owing to having to compete one against the other. • It was decided to hold a Dominion conference at Christchurch on June 26, with.a view to bringing this about, each party to be lepresented by six persons, and the conference to be presided over by the Conciliation Commissioner. If a, settlement is arrived at, recommendation will be made to the Court to convert the agreement into a new award.

Demands have been filed by the recently formed Wellington Brewery Employees' Union asking for a 44-hour week, or one hour less than at present, and for practically 5s a week increase per man all round, making the wages range from £2 15s a week for brewery and malthcuse laborers to £3 10s for foreman maltster The men's claims are based practically on the same terms as exist at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.