WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12242, 30 June 1900, Page 8

WORK AND WAGES.

[Peb Pbess Association.] - - DUNEDIN, June 29. The Arbitration Court has given its award in the carpenters’ dispute as follows; —A week’s work, of forty-four hours, at Is 4d per hour, except in' factories', where -journeymen’ -receive -£3 for forty-six and'a half hours’ . work. ; ’ lit the- -saddlers’ dispute, 'the award provides' for forty-eight hours’'work, at Is an hour. lii both trades apprentices are to be indentured. At the Arbitration Court, on the millers’ dispute coming up, the Union representatives stated that ail the millers but three bad signed the agreement signed by the Conciliation Board. The Union desired that these persons should be brought into line.. As it transpired on inquiry- that no dispute existed in Otago and Southland beyond that the employees wanted the conditions of labour made universal throughout New Zealand, and as the President stated that the Court had no' power to make a common award, an agreement was arrived at that the Court should make an award, commencing on August 30 next, and lasting for a day, or perhaps, a week, and then do a similar’thing at. Christchurch, where a, dispute/was-pendingy and then-at Auckland in a hke-manner. by which time: the Court would have all the facts before-It,- and be in a. position to make an award, which yjrald run..tlss>ugli&Ht, the colony,,