TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 December 1924, Page 7

TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE.

— COMPLETE SETTLEMENT. DOMINION AWARD MADE. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION; CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 10. After a long sitting yesterday and another session to-day, a Conciliation Council settled wages and conditions affecting the typographers of New Zealand. As the dispute was a Dominion one, there were representatives irom both North and South -Island on the council. A slight increase in wages on the present award rate was agreed to, and conditions were on the lints of the previous award. Complete agreement was arrived at. Conciliation Commissioner. W. H. Haggeg presided. The following minimtim weekly rates °f P & y were fixed: Linotvpe arid Intertype machines, first division, £5 IDs: second division, £5 os. Monotype machines, first division, £5 7;s; second division, £5 2s. Monoline, Tvpograph, Barotype, Simplex arid other composing machines first division, £5 2s 6d- secorid £4.115, The rates for night work were 10 ver cent, extra. Bulk hands and riiachine correctors, £o 2s 6d day work, arid £5 12s 6d for nighty work. Second stone hands, £5 17s 6d for night work and £5 7s 6d day work. The present efficient speed for operators’ clause, arid the present clause regarding probationers Were agreed to The .divisions were fixed as follows: Lirst division—the .cities of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. an J .4 U'lddis of 10 miles of these, cities! , division—towns outside this: area, bfit in the Moiiolirie and other machines section the first division, was for places'cif a population over 6000, arid the second division towns of Under 6000 inhabitants. The riiebework clauses in the. present award were • accepted, arid the present hours of work for time workers also a' J to. .These were 42 a Week. For hours the Upion asked for. 40, for day work and .38 for night work. The employers offered 48 and 45 respectively. Holidays as in the present award were agreed to. The call payment clause o*' the present award was struck out, and the provision was substituted that should be paid at the rate of 2s Bd for journeymen and Is 6'd for apprentices. Condition's relating to piece Work and the guarantee of hours to efficiency picewofk operators ivefe agreed to in the old award, with a, few mirior alterations. For hand arid jobbing work, wages were: For cities and toivns with a population of 6000, £5 -s 6d a week ;• for places of under 6000 inhabitants, £4 15s a week, casuals, bulk hands and othei’s fco he paid as under the old award. Night work to be paid 10 pfer cent extra. Present, hours of work—4s a week—were agreed to. Tt"was decided to, eliminate all reference to pipework for hand and jobbing workers. All the clauses relating to apprentices were dropped, as this matter is now covered by . special legislation tor .apprentices. - General conditions bearing on the work.- of machine and hand u’orkers were fixed on the lines of the old award. After some discussion it was agreed that the r ward shchld come into force on January i, 1925,. arid, remain in operation until March 1, 1927.

Mr. Ferguson thanked the eraplovfor the generous way .in which they had met the men, and rebelled to the satisfactory result of the council's sittings. Mr. A. G. Henderson replied that the employers had determined to improve the conditions of loiter raid men, and they had no regret ai’ what had been done. He ".hanked Mr. 'Hugger for liis patient hearing of the dispute, a, dispute which was o e of the most difficult, and ce.tamjy the most technical, in the Dominion. Mr. Hugger said that a conciliatory spirit had been slic-wn, on both sides, and he was delighted that the council had settled such a difficult dispute. It wds always advisable that a dispute oi that nature should he settled by a Conciliation Council.