THE MINERS’ DEMANDS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 272, 2 November 1916, Page 6

THE MINERS’ DEMANDS.

The secretary 7 of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Union (Mr. A. C. Willis) stated to SydneyDaily 7 Telegraph that it was a custom of some years’ standing at certain collieries for employees to leave work from 10 to 20 minutes under the nine hours to enable them to catch the train home. The following reso hitions had been carried by 7 the union" That unless the owners agree to meet the federation’s representatives m conference before the 28th instant for the purpose of discussing and settling the federation’s claims for an eigat-hour bank-io-oank working day, and increased uavmont tor overtime for Sundays and holidays, as set out in the •federation s log recently submitted o the led i il Court of conciliation n I ' oitr ion. the council of the federations recommends that on and after 3utn October the whole of the members ot the federation only work the hours and observe the conditions and rates of pay 7 as set out in the log as follow : —(1) That eight ho-irs bank-to-bank —including one half-hour for meals—shall constitute ;- full working shift on Monday. 'Cuesdav, Wednesday. Thursday and 1 :■ div and th." b< i’-.. niiius’ve ci one half-hour for meals, shall constitute a lull working shift on Satur- j cav and Sunday 7 and on holidays ; (2) that overtime at the rate ot time and a-half shall be paid to all em- : ploy it v oiking xn t\t s <r thos» 1 ous t n am Qi L Mo « to Satuiciv ’nc 1 ’ sni ; (3) all work other , than oveitnnt pmfcimed on Sundays] tnd holidays shall be paid lor at i three times the ordinary rates.”] .the term “bank-to-bank, ’ the sec-! retnrv explained, means from the \ time the first employee working in a ’ sh’ft leaves the surface, to the time ] the last employee in the shift returns ; to the sni 11< c. i