"INDUSTRIAL PEACE."

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 105, 7 May 1907, Page 8

"INDUSTRIAL PEACE."

Press Association. Auckland, May 6. The Arbitration Court has adopted an agreement between the Bookbinders', Paper Rulers' and Cutters' Union and the employers. It provides for a week of 48 hours, competent journeymen rulers and binders to get JE3 a week, first cutters 555, second 50s, third cutters 37a Gd, other cutters 30s, any cutter taken off guillotine work to do journeyman binders' work to get .£3 a week for the time so occupied. Casual labor to be paid at the rate of Is 4jd an hour, overtime to be at

the rate of time and a quarter, with double times on Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and time and a half on five annual holidays. Apprentices to get 7s 6d a week for the first year, 10s 6d the second year, 15s the third, 20s the fourth, 25s the fifth, and 30s the sixth year. The President of the Court suggested to the parties to the Auckland slaughtermen's dispute, that in view of the publication of the Gisborne award, an agreement might be arranged. It was stated the employees consider the Gisborne award this evening. Mr Bust, representing the Butchers' Union, asked that the butchers' award, terminating in June, 1909, be annulled, with a view to bringing it into line with southern awards. The President replied that the Court could not go into the matter. If it had made an award without jurisdiction the remedy was for one of the parties to apply to the

Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition. Mr Bust withdrew his application.