Dunedin Amalgamated Engin eering Union

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 2

Dunedin Amalgamated Engin eering Union

The employers rejected the follow* ing- wage-rate claims made by t?u; Dunedin Branch of the A.E.U.. when* dispute reached, the ConciliatiM , Council last week: —The wages fflf journeymen to be not less than 2/1 per hour. Oxy-acetylene and elect* welders to receive 1/4 per day extra whilst so employed. Foremen to rereceive 5/- per day extra, and charge men directed to take charge of any job to receive 2/6 per day extra above the minimum rates, provided that tli« job shall extend for one day or more. Apprentices to be paid the following rates of wages: For the first year, »| 10s.; second year, £2; third year, & 10a.; fourth year, £3; fifth year, *» 10s. per week. Age limit for apP l ' eil ' tiees. to start 17 years of age. Mr. Cpokson, for the employers, sm that a Dominion Conciliation Couflw had been held in Wellington and partial agreement had/been.arrived** The parties in the present case ¥* pared to accept the WellingJJ agreement. That agreement setuw practically everything except The question of wages would have go to the Arbitration Court. ' Messrs. S. J. Elstou and A. J- Bic were the Union- assessors.