THE BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10411, 8 April 1897, Page 5

THE BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE.

AWARD OF THE CONCILIATION

BOARD.

[BT MLKORAPH.--PRBS9 ASSOCIATION.] Christohobcb, Wednesday. The award of the Conciliation Board in the dispute betwoen the masters and the Carpenters and Joiners' Society recommends that 10s a day be the minimum wage for competent hands ; that the wages of those unable to earn the minimum is to be decided by a committee of the employers and workmen; that tho hours of labour from August to May inclusive are to be 8 o'clock a.m. to 5 p.m., and from May to July inclusive 8 o'clock a.m. to 4.30 p.m. ; overtime to be paid at the rate of time and aquarter for the first four hours, and time and a-half afterwards ; that men sent to a country job are to be conveyed or have their expenses and 10 per cent, added to their wages, where the distance necessitates lodgings; that the suburban limit for Christchurchfor walking is to be one mile from Town-street to the nearest place at which work is being carried on ; that conditions being equal, Unonists be employed in preference to non-members, but that where the latter are employed, no distinction is to bo made, and equal pay be given for equal work ; that any dispute which the committee cannot settle be decided by the Board of Conciliation. Provision is made for sanitary convenience and the safety of men's tools. The increase of wages comes into force on May 24 next. Each side has to accept or refuse the award by Tuesday next.