INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11731, 13 August 1901, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.]

. Chhistchttrch, Monday. The Arbitration Court made the following award to-day in the dispute in the hairdressers' trade : —Minimum wage for journeymen, £2 10s per week, hours of labour 53 per week (exclusive of meal limes), the regulation of hours worked in each establishment to 'be fixed by each employer according to circumstances, but the day's work must end at eight p.m. on four days a week, one p.m. on the half-holiday, and ten p.m. on Saturdays. Provision is made for one hour oil; at meal times. The full holidays are to be New Year's Day, Good Friday, Labour Day, Anniversary Day, Christmas Day, holidays from noon on Easter Monday and Tuesday, from eleven on King's Birthday, Boxing Day, second Show-Day. Apprentices' wages are fixed at : First year, os ; second, 10s ; third, 15s ; fourth, £1 ; fifth, £1 10s. The award applies onlv to Christchurch and suburbs, and takes effect on; Monday next, and continues for two years. The Court also made the following award in the lithographic letter-press printers' dispute:—Hours of labour, 48 < per week, between eight a.m. and six p.m. for five days, and eight a.m. and noon on the recognised half-holiday, subject to 48 hours being considered a full week, the minimum wage for journeymen to be £51 10s per week ; holidays on New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the King's Birthday, Show Day, Labour Anniversary, and Christmas Day. Overtime on Sunday, Christmas, or Good Friday, -it double rate of pay ; on other holidays at time and a-half, on ordinary days time and a third. Provision is made for the improver period at a wage beneath the minimum where a workman considers himself incapable of earning the regular minimum wage, the rate of pay in such coses to be fixed by the chairman of the Conciliation Board. The proportion of apprentices is one for the first two permanent journeymen, one for the next th ee, and one additional for every five jouva.-ymeu permanently employed. Wages of apprentices are fixed at 5s per week for i\e first year, rising 5s weekly each year. Th; award applies to Christchurch and Lyttelton only, taking effect from .next Monday for Iwo years. ' ' ■..;.■-

Wellington, Monday. The Conciliation Board to-day commenced the hearing of the iron and brass moulders' dispute. The unionists demand Is 4jd per hour, and a week's work of 44 hours. Several minor points were settled at a conference. It was dc cided to attach employers in Wanganui, Palmerston, and Napier as parties to the dispute. , The painters' dispute was considered by the Arbitration Court today. The union asks for 10s a day, but the employers say they cannot afford to ptfy it. Th; award will be given before, the 'members of the Court leave Christehurch.

Three cases for the enforcement of an award, brought by Christehurch Tailors' Trade Union, against three firms, arc now occupying the attention of the Court, which may finish its sitting here by Wednesday morning.