SHIPS’ GALLEY STAFFS
AWARD SOUGHT.
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WELLINGTON, August 11
The Arbitration Court Is hearing an aip» plication for a new award covering ships’ galley staffs. The wages sought range From £ls a. month for assistant ships cooks to £26 for chief cooks on intercolonial and' foreign services, the same rates as asked when the union was previously before the court, and,.the award given fixed wages on the Australian scales. Since then they have been reduced. The present rales, tiro union representative staled, were £l3 for 300 hours a month, less than 10$ d per hour, against Is 10d for unskilled labor.
The anion’s demand is for an eighthour day, making (with the £4 allowed for keep’) an equivalent of Is 8d per hour. The present day is one of ten hoait), while the Australian "award has a nine-hour day. The union asks for 5s overtime pay.
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Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 4
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149SHIPS’ GALLEY STAFFS Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 4
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