WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11189, 10 February 1897, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE lIAMBIJEGr DOOKBES. [Per Press Association.! BERLIN, Feb. 8, The Hamburg dock strikers have resumed work on the masters’ terms.

PERTH, Feb. 9. The strike in the building trade is extending. The plasterers will strike on Monday for twelve shillings per day. THE SEAMEN’S UNION. DUNEDIN, Feb. 9. At a meeting of the Conciliation Board to-day the Union Steamship Company and Seamen’s Union accepted the following terms as a settlement: —(1) Wages to be increased by 10s per month as from March 1, 1897. (2) Overtime rates remain as at present. (3) Holidays and payment for holidays remain as at present. (4) The company to have the same right of employing non-members of the Union as at present, but to afford members of the Union the same right of employment as to others. (5) Membership of the company’s benefit society to be optional after Sept 30 next, which will bo the end of the society’s financial year. In the meantime the company may require employes to join the society and may give its members preference of employment. (6) The company to have the same right as at present to engage hands by agents. (7) The Seamen’s Union representative not to visit members on board ship, but the company to recognise the right of such representative to visit the men in their own time at any other place. Regarding the dispute of the Seamen’s Union with Mr Keith Ramsay, the latter accepts the above terms so far as they apply to him. Mr James Mills said that the concessions contained in the settlement, together with the concessions recently granted to the engineers, and other concessions that must necessarily follow, would involve the company in an additional annual expenditure of about .£IO,OOO. This would have to be made up in some way, and so far as he could see, the way to do that was by an increase in freights and passenger rates.