LABOR DISPUTES

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 274, 28 November 1901, Page 2

LABOR DISPUTES

ARBITRATION ANi> CONCILIATION Ry Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, last night, lue Arbitration Court, in its award in t,l£ tamers' and blacksmiths' dispute, uxc-s a week's work at 10 .trs, the miniinuni rate of wages to b n.l a day for doormen? All boys n .n after the 30th inst. are to b ~uei tured for six years, jf retained at ...c c .piry of three months' probation. In the building trades laborers’ dispute a week's work is iixed at 4b hours. All

men assisting bricklayers, plasterers, and masons shall be paid a minimum of Is Id per hour; general laborers, is per hour; seafl'old builders, is 2d per hour, lioys shall only be employed in the proportion ot one to every four laborers, but apprentices assisting journeymen are not affected by this clause.

The Conciliation Board's recoinmenda- j tion for the settlement of the disputes in the j grocery trade proposes that the minimum ! weekly wage shall be, shops where there j are more than three employees, A 3 10s for 1 first counter hand, X'3 for second counter hand, and £2 bs for third class hands and those below them. Where less than three men are employed the minimum weekly wage shall be : X2 lUs for first, and £2 5s for second hand. Where an employee is regularly employed in a shop at ordinary work he shail be classed as first shopman. The indenturing of apprentices shall not be compulsory, but if indentured, a boy must not be less than 15 years of age. The term of apprenticeship shall be four or five years.