INDSTRIAL DISPUTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12852, 28 April 1905, Page 6

INDSTRIAL DISPUTES.

Thk Auckland and Gisborue branchasi of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, and Joiners have made application for the hearing of un industrial dispute before the Board of Conciliation. The workers demand t-h'*t the total number of hours to 'be worked in any one week without payment of overtime - v. shall not exceed 48 in summer, and 45.iii : :;*g winter; that all overtime worked .-shall. b« .V* paid for at the rate of time and a-quarter for time up to eight p.m., time and g-liaU ;•& between eight p.m. and midnight, and -5, double time between midnight, and the tiff.? ;; for commencing the day's wurk; that thfi-.'<'| wages to be paid to apprentices shall he:* During the first year not less than.ss ]>? r - week, second year not less than 12s, third? year not less than 18s, fourth year not leM than 235, and fifth year not less than 28s. The Auckland Builders and Contractors?: Labourers,' Industrial Union of Workers have also made application for the heariat of an industrial dispute before the Board 0. £ Conciliation. The union demands that the actual working .time per week shall. ; exceed 47 hours, , and that ' the ljiinuHuO rate of-wages for .labourer.'? Employed "3* bricklayers' labourers, masons' labourers* . 4 .plasterers' labourers, or on concrete work* pick and. shovel, work, or shovel or spade work in connection with the building opera* tions shall be not less than Is Id per hour* v| hod or brick carriers Is si': that labourers: engaged in the constructing of 'scaffolds art, vg to be paid for the time while they are em- ; ployed on such work not less than Is 2d per hour; that labourers employed on any unskilled' work not coming within the above | clauses in connection with building opera-. - ; : ions or road works shall, be paid not less . ' than Is per hour; that labourers employed on any public drainage or sewerage contracts within a radius of 10 miles from Chief , Post Office, Auckland, shall be paid a im® 1 * mum of Is Id pej- .hour. Licensed drainage \ ?•£ men 1- ,M per hour. . \ v • . V.