INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11745, 29 August 1901, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

\ *0 — ■ AUCKLAND PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS' STATEMENT. An application for reference of an industrial dispute between. the Auokland Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Metal Workers' Industrial Union and 60 master plumbers to the Conciliation Board has been filed with the olork of awards (Mr. R. Goring Thomas), who has fixed the hearing for Tuesday morning next, at ten o'clook. The following is the union statement:— 1. That the hours per week be optional, not to exceed 47 hours per week, ordinary time. , Clause 2. That the rate of payment be according to the ability and energy of the employee, the minimum wage to be at the rate of Is 2d per hour. Clause 3. That employers pay all fares to and from any job situated more than one mile and a4ialf from the junction of Queen and Grey Streets. Clause 4. When working at the.North Shore employees to catch the half-past seven a.m. boat, returning by the ten minutes past five p.m.; on Saturdays returning by the ten minutes past twelve p.m. boat. All fares to be paid by the employer. , Clause 5. When workmen have to carry a load of material or tools to job, they will start from shop at ordinary time. Clause 6. That payment for overtime on work outside the shop shall be as follows: From five p.m. to nine p.m., time and a-quarter; after nine p.m. time and ahalf; and for work inside the shop, namely, repairs to employer's plant and machinery, ordinary time only. Clause 7. That for work done on Saturday after one p.m. the rate of pay be time and a-quarter (subject to reservation as per clause 6), and that for work done on New Year's Day, Anniversary Day, Easter Monday, Prince of Wales' Birthday, King's - Birthday, and Boxing Day, that rate of pay , shall bd at the rate of time and a-half up to five p.m., and after five p.m. double. For Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, double time (subject to reservation as per clause 6). Clause 8. That all apprentices shall serve six years, after a probation of three months with one employer or firm only, the rate of wage to be 6s per week for the first year; 8s for the second year; 10s for the third year; 12s for the fourth year; 15s for' the fifth year; and 20s for the sixth year. That the number of apprentices shall be arranged as follows: That each firm shall be entitled to one apprentice, and after that the number employed shall not exceed one extra apprentice to every two journeymen. The proportion to be gauged by full employment of journeymen for two-thirds full time during the previous six months. That in any firm where only one apprentice is employed, another apprentice may be taken on after the first one has served the fifth year of his apprenticeship. Clause 9. That workers who come under the 'definition of improvers, having worked at the trade for any period not exceeding the term of apprenticeship, shall forthwith enter into a proper agreement with an employer to serve the balance of term, and shall receive a certificate on the completion ol their term of six years, which shall declare them to bo duly qualified journeymen, but from the date of this industrial agreement no improver shall be engaged. Clause 10. That on all country jobs necessitating employees living away from home, all fares thereto and from there shall bo paid by the employers, and time of travelling to and from such job, and that all expenses be paid by employer. Clause 11. That employers shall provide men with soldering bolts, iron pipe fitting tools, metal pots, plumbing irons, mandrills and files, and the employees to find the balance of tools required for their work. - Clause 12. That wages shall be paid weekly. Clause 13. That any employee who, through age or physical infirmity, may consider himself unable, or may be considered unable to earn the minimum wage, may apply to the chairman of tho Conciliation Board, who shall then appoint a committee consisting of two employers and two employees and himself or his nominee, acting as chairman, who may give certificate to that effect; such certificate to entitle the employee to work for any wage that may be mutually agreed upon by the employer and employee. Clause 14-. This statement to take effect after the date of this finding, and shall hold good for three years therefrom. Clause 15. That the penalty for any breach of this statement shall not exceed £10, such penalty to be recoverable before a stipendiary magistrate. Clause 16. The recommendations to refer to plumbers and gasfitters and those following such occupation. Clause 17. Employers shall employ members of the Plumbers' Union in preference to non-members, provided there - are members of _ the Plumbers' Union who are equally qualified with nonmembers to perform the particular work to bo done, and ready and willing to undertake it. When non-members are employed there shall be no distinction between members and non-members, both shall work together in harmony and both shall work under the same conditions and receive equal pay for equal work. Any dispute under this rule shall be decided by the chairman of the Conciliation Board, under tho Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, in the district where such dispute shall arise.