INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 12

INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS

COOKS AND STEWARDS. fPER PBESB ASSOCIATION. I WELLINGTON, February 17. Acting on the recommendations of the Conciliation Council in the coastal cooks and stewards’ dispute, and on the application of both parties, the Arbitration Court agreed to make the agreement into an award. SEAMEN’S M-AGES WELLINGTON, February 16. The new seamen’s award, which is to operate for 18 months from February 1, provides for considerable increases in wages for all classes of labour. The wages of boatswain and first A.B. are increased from £l6/4/- to £l9; A.B’s, £l5/4/- to £18; 0.5., over 18, from £lO/9/- to £ll/19/-; 0.5., under 18, £9/4/- to £lO/10/-. Overtime rates are increased from 2/9 to 3/2 an hour. ENGINE-DRIVERS’ AWARD WELLINGTON, February 16. • More than 150 applications received for exemption from the operation of the award were lodged when the dispute between the Wellington, Taranaki, Nelson, and Marlborough Engine Drivers’ and their Assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers and Bonds Hosiery Mills (N.Z.) Ltd., and other employers listed, opened to-day before the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. it. J. Reardon. Among the parties who applied for exemption from the operation of the award, either wholly Or partially, were freezing works and cool stores, dairy factories, hospital boards, private railways, and tramways, city councils, and harbour boards. The applicants for the award claimed a 40-hour week and wages ranging from £5/15/- to £6/10/- a week, while the employers in the counter-proposals asked for a 44-hour week and wages ranging from 15/6 a day to 2/4 an hour.