BUILDING WORKERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 June 1939, Page 4

BUILDING WORKERS.

PROVISIONS OF NEW AWARD. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 12. A now Dominion award applying to the workers not otherwise covered in the building and contracting and allied industries, and to the workers employed at genera] labouring work in stone quarries, sand, scoria, and shingle pits and dumps, or in loading and unloading shingly, stone, or sand barges, or in roadmaking, has been issued by the Arbitration Court, which fixes hours at 40 for a five-day week, and the minimum wage at Lis id an hour. An interesting feature of the. new award is the definition and inclusion of special conditions for suburban work: "It shall mean work other than country work performed elsewhere than at the shop of the employer," and, irrespective of where the engagement takes place, it provides that "workers employed nn suburban work more than a mile and a-lialf from the specified central points shall travel at the expense of the employer." The points are specified for each of the main centres and elsewhere the principal Post Office is taken. Mr "W. Cecil Prime (employers' advocate) dissents so far as some of the concessions made lo the union fire concerned as. in his oninion. conditions are such that nothing should he done which tend toWiU'd an increase in costs however small.