WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12537, 26 June 1901, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

[Pee Peess Association.] AUCKLAND, June 25. A dispute has been, filed between the Carters’ Union and fifty-five employers. Among the demands of the Union are that drivers shall leave the stables at ,7.30 a.m. and return at 5 p.m., and on Saturdays at noon; that £2 8s shall be the minimum wage for drivers of waggons and lorries, and £2 5s for the drivers "of drays and springcarts. , . A dispute has been filed between the Auckland Bakers’ Union and sixty-nine employers. The Union demands that nine and a half hours shall be a day’s labour, including one and a half hours for breakfast and one hour for sponging* and that wages shall be —Eor foremen, a minimum of £3, for second hands £2 10s and for-others £2 5s per week. AUCKLAND, Juno 25. The trouble at the Komata Rosf mine, regarding the single-hammer question, is now practically over. Several old hands are returning to work, while miners from other places are ready to take up work under the new system. June 25. Seven disputes await hearing in the Arbitration Court, besides twenty-three applications for the enforcement of awards. Giving evidence before the Conciliation Board to-day in regard to the claims of printing machinists, the foreiian. of the “New Zealand Times” job printing department said that if the demands of the Union were granted one-twelfth of the output of the machine-room Would be affected. With the expensive machines now in use, printers had great difficulty in getting sufficient work out of the machines to pay current expenses. He did not think that a journeyman would be justified in refusing to teach a boy the trade. A machinist of thirtynine years’ experience stated in his evidence that he had never suffered in health through the trade.