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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 March 1913, Page 5

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WHEAT LOADERS. (Press Association. —Copyright.) SYDNEY. March 18. The Barling Harbour wharf labourers' trouble has been settled. HOTEL CECIL COOKS DOWN DISHES. LONDON, March 18. Prior to the Home Rule banquet, the cooks in the Hotel Cecil downed dishes and insisted on their holiday demands being granted. The management granted their conditions. DOCKERS' WAGES. (Recei%'ed March 19. 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. The dockyardmen at Portsmouth are asking the Treasury to receive a deputation in connection with an increase of wages, otherwise they will convene a conference of all trader-unionists in the Government employment in dockyards and towns. MARINE ENGINEERS' AGREEMENT. WELLINGTON. March. 18. The Marine Engineers' Institute is taking steps to have several of the smaller shipping companies joined as parties to the agreement recently arrived, at with the Union 'Steamship"Company. In ■a day or two an application will probably be filed to join the Blackball CoalCompany, the Westport Coal Company, the. Maoriland Steamship Company, the Anchor Steamship Companj-. and the Canterbury Steamship Company as parties, but only in respect to such of their vessels as come within the scope of the present agreement. Vessels of small engine power will, for a time at any rate, continue to be exempt. AUCKLAND TRAMWAY WORKERS. AUCKLAND. This Day. The tramway employees considered the reports by representatives who attended thro-.' unsuccessful conferences with the company. The latter are not inclined to concede the men's demands, owing to the increased expenditure involved. A proposal to'give 14 days' notice to the company was" considered, but it was decided to postpone drastic action till a more favourable opportunity. It was strongly hinted that Exhibition time would be a good opportunity. It is, stated that the new demands wxiuld panv in an additional expenditure of £20.000 per annum. ' TAIL-OBESSES' DISPUTE. WELLINGTON. March 18. A Dominion award has been fixed by the-.Arbitration Court in the matter of an industrial dispute between the New Zealand Federated Tailoresses' and other Clothing . Tiade .Employees' Industrial Association of.....Workers and the New Zealand Wholesale Clothing. Manufacturers' Industrial Association ?of Employers. award will take effect from the 31st March, 1913. and will continue in force until the 17th JMarch, 1916. The award provides for a 45 hours week in respect to tailoresses. *• \^ It provides for a two years' apprenticeship and two years' inipS-avership (ex<ept shiHmaking). ' _ the Following wages are to be paid apprentices and improvers: First six months ss. per week, second six months 7s'6d'-per week, third 10s, fourth 12s 6d fifth 15s, sixth 17s 6d, seventh 20s, eighth 22s 6d. / At the end of the fourth year the worker 'may be employed as an improver for another year at 25s per week. There is to be no limitation in the number of apprentices employed. ■ ■ Tie 'minimum wage for a\journeyr woman is to be 27s 6d sbe, weeli; The minimum wage for male'-onaphinists is to be £2 15s per week. The minimum wage a second class critter is to be £3 per week, for a stock cutter and trimmer £2 15s per week, and for an examiner in charge of a finishing room £2.125 ; 6d per week. • ViL.! '.-'■' All cutters' requisites iare^.t£> bo pro vided by the employer. Provision is Wade for Sbvertinwv and holidays. Piecework is not to be allowed. Apprentices to stock and chavi cutting and trimming must serve five years, and be paid as follows: First year 10a per week, second 15s, third, 22s 6d, fourth 30s, fifth 40s: Presser's are to be paid at the option •of the employers, either a minimum - wage of £2 15s pe-r week, or the piece work, rates specified, in the subjoined log. Thero is to be only one system of working and paying preseers in force in any factory at one time. Casual workers are to be paid at the rate of not less than Is 4id per hour. Provision is made for overtime. The principal alterations are these : (a) The minimum wage for journeymen has been -fixed at 27s 6d ; per week, with a provision that a fifth year may be worked, as an improver at 25s per week (b) A minimum wage has been fixed for male machinists. (c) "A provision," says the memorandum, "has been inserted with regard to the payment of bonuses. The Workers' Association asked, to have the system prohibited, but the Court, has declined to do that. It is desirable to repeat what was said on the subject in connection with the Christ-church Ironmoulders' 'dispute, viz., that the premium or bonus system if worked under fair conditions is in the interests of both, employei's and workers and instead of being abolished should be encouraged. The objection of the workers .in this case to tup system, appears to arise mainly from 'the fact that many employers do not take the trouble to explain to workers the method by which the amount of the bonus is arrived'at." The clause now s inserted in the award will remove ; tb,afc- objection, and will help, it'is ■hoped; 7 to make the system satisfactorily."