PRINTERS' AWARD.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1912, Page 7

PRINTERS' AWARD.

SPERMS OF THE AGREEMENTS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 1. The printers' Dominion award -divides the towns into two classes, over and under 2500. Linotype and monotype operators in the four cities are to receive by day £3 14s, and by night £4 2s per week. All the others \will receive £3 10s and £3 16s. The monoline rates are: First divi- • sion £3 6s and £3 12s, second £3 and £3 6s; simplex first division £3 and £3 6s, second £2 15s and £3 Is. Bulk hands in cities will receive £3 •6s for day work and £3 10s for night work; second stone hands £3 10s and £3 15s. Youths and girls may be employed, as justifiers or spacers on Simplex machines, and as caster attendants on 'monotypes, at wages to be agreed; •on. Efficiency speed on linotypes remains as before, except that 7000 is the minimum required in 15 months, and on monolines 4500. Piece work rates are unaltered, except that night operators get onetenth extra. Overtime on machines -counts^ time and a-half and handwork time and a-third. Apprentices may not be employed on machines till they liave had two years' instruction as; compositors. Blocks shall be charged for by the operator. For handwork the rates are: First division, day £3 ss, night £3 10s; second, £2 15s and £3. No proportion of apprentices appears to have been fixed for machines, but for handwork the proportion is one for the liouse and one for each, three journeymen." ' Weekly wages under the award are mot subject to deduction save for Tiolidays or through sickness or default of the worker. Preference is given to unionists if there is a member of a local union qualified and willing to take the place of a nonunionist, but this does not apply to female workers. The award is for three years, until October 31st, 1915. /■ . . The Court states it found it impossible to provide for readers.