Furniture Trades Agreement

Northern Advocate, 23 July 1938, Page 2

Furniture Trades Agreement

I Per Press Association. Copyright .l WELLINGTON. This Day. Complete agreement was reached in the adjourned Dominion furniture trades employees’ industrial dispute at a Conciliation Council yesterday. The dispute was originally heard last March, when several matters, including the employment of boys and youths, conditions for certain female workers, overtime, holidays and meal money held up negotiations. As a result of today's discussions these points were satisfactorily settled. The new award provides for an allround wage increase. It was agreed that boys could be employed in the Otago and Southland industrial districts in operating semi-autimatlc of automatic bedding machines at rates ranging from 30/ in the first six months to £4 10/ in the fourth year, and thereafter at journeymen’s rates. The proportion of boys to seniors under this clause was fixed at one in each two or fraction of two adult workers. Youths’ wages ere fixed in with the Northern flock, felt and springworkers’ award, the pro portion against being one Youth to each two or fraction of two adult male workers. Wages for females engaged in the eaving of wire mattresses and seat foundations were fixed from £1 2/6 in the first six months to £2 10/ in the foruth year, and thereafter at £3 2/. Holidays were fixed the same as the old award. The four R.A.F. Vickers Wellesley bombing machines, which made a record flight from Cromwell to Ismalia, on July 7 arrived here from Egypt at 8.25 p.m.. says a message from London.