ARBITRATION COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16551, 15 May 1914, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

SITTINGS IN DUNEDIN. OTAGO BOILERMAKERS' CASE. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, May 13. The boilermakers' dispute was continued before the Arbitration Court to-day, evidence being called bj botn 61 Mr" Pryor for the employers, asked the Court to delay making an award until it had reviewed the whole situation If the. Court delayed making an award until the Auckland case was heard doubtless more interesting information would bo obtained because Auckland was the centre that employedthe largest number of boilermakers in the dominion Mr Jenkinson asked the Court to consider the advisability of making an award before hearing the dispute at Auckland. It seemed to him an attempt was being made to compel the boilermakers' dispute to bear the whole burden of the engineering trade. Tho President said the Court would probably be sitting in Auckland at the end of Julv and he thought they should not dispose of the case until they had heard the evidence m Auckland so that they could have the whole evidence before them.

SOUTHLAND JOURNALISTS. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, May 13

The award was given to-day in the industrial dispute between the Dunedn Journalists' Industrial Union and the newspaper proprietors of Inveicargill. It is based upon the Timaru award and provides that senior journalists shall receive £5 per week, general journalists £4, and junior journalists £3 tho proportions being fixed as tolly's : -Oii staff of four,- one senior, two general men and one junior; on staff of five, two senior men, two genoral men and one junior; on staff or six. two senior men, three general men and one junior. This award will bo in force for two years. AWARD FOR AUCKLAND TIMBER WORKERS. [Pub Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 13. A new award to govern workers in tho timber industry in the Auckland industrial district has been delivered by Mr Justice Stringer and will remain in force until February 1, 1917. A large amount of evidence was taken by the assessors in the Conciliation Council when this award was being considered. Compared with the old award tho minimum rate of wages has been raised by from Is to Is 6d per day, but it is stated that this will not affect the great bulk of the workers in tho country where even higher wages have been ruling for some time. Headmen on band mills are to get 10s per day, head circular saw men 10s, engine-drivers with first-class certificates 10s 6d and second-class 9s bd, blacksmiths (in country mills only) 10s 6d. head mill carpenters lis, second mill carpenters 10s, machine men 10s, tallymen 10s 6d. The wages of all other classes of workers are fixed at a minimum of 9s, except in the case of men on recutter saw box or «nall splitting saw, who are fixed at 7s bd and 6s and third assistant saw-doctor who is fixed at 7s. These are increases of Is per day. THEATRICAL EMPLOYEES' DISPUTE.

The case of theatrical employees other than stage hands was heard this afternoon. Mr Breen, for the employees, asked to have stage doorkeepers and casual workers added. He said that at continuous picture theatres ticke"t sellers received 20s per week, an average of about 8d per hour. At other places they received 2s per performance of three and a half hours which worked out at about lOd per hour. After evidence had been called the Court reserved its decision. CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. The award in the dispute between the Invercargill branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and Southland Builders and Contractors' Union of Employers is based on the Otago award, except in regard to suburban work, to deal with which a special clause has been inserted. This clause, it is stated, is somewhat exceptional in form and is not to be taken as a precedent. It states (a) that suburban work shall be deemed to be work carried on more than three miles from the chiof post office and shall he paid for at the rate of Is per day extra, and (b) that any worker residing within three miles of a road used by foot passengers of the place where work is to bo dono shall not be entitled to any allowance under clause (a).

SOUTHLAND BUTCHERS

The award in the Southland butchers' dispute is the same in its main features as the- Dunedin award. A memorandum says that tho award is made so as to bring the butchering tra(?.o in Invercargill into lino with the trada in the other centres.