PAINTING TRADE

Evening Star, Issue 19272, 10 June 1926, Page 5

PAINTING TRADE

COfaiHlOfl DISPUTE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 10. In the painters’ dispute before tho Conciliation Council Mr Cornwell, for the employees, said they were asking for 2s 9d* per hour, and the men wanted to he paid Is 6d per day extra. Replying to a suggestion that if the demands were too high there might he a danger of people painting their own houses, Mr Cornwell said a man would only paint his own house once. A snb-clause was agreed to that no worker be compelled to work longer than five hours without a mcnl._ The employees asked double time for work on Sundays and statutory holidays, also that a meal allowance of Is 6d be paid where necessary. There was a division of opinion on the definition of suburban work, the men demanding anything over one mile from the General Post Office to bo classed as suburban also that travelling expenses be paid beyond that distance or else they no convolved to their work free. They asked that the time spent in travelling to and from work he paid for at ordinary sates* i