SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 6

SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE.

The agreement/'•■which was arrived at between the Auckland Slaughtermen's Union and' the employers as regards > tho freezing portion of the dispute, and which was afterwards converted into an award, la ■> based largely ;on the award which was given in the ; Gisborhe dispute.. The clauses relating to hours, under-rat© workers,;■ and preference toj: unionists , j axe m practically ; CJ , the same. ; Wages are to be paid ; as follows: —

Slaughtermen: /For freezing sheep and ■: lambs, • er 100, £1 3a; lor leg of mutton sheep, per 100, £1; for potters, per 100, 183; for rams, other than rami lambs, each; for; bullocks, is■ each; for ■; pips, *is each: for calves, present rates. ; The killing and' dressing ■•' of sheep ; and lam shall ! consist of killing, taking off. skin /and, shanks ; with wool pieces, taking inside out and stripping oaui /' fat, wiping and : thoroughly cleaning carcase, putting on ; butchers' tags, hanging off, ana taking out sweetbreads from the beginning of /the lamb, season nntil April:*). The .'' employers j shall remove kidneys, and shall ;• provide / gambles ; and /;.: tags /to/ each; butcher at his hook, and shall also clean buckets and boxes. • .Cooling ■ floor and gat- '. howro hands, 11 Jd; per hoar; boners, present • rates. (One / gut-hand to bo : provided for •everT- three : slaughtermen or frai'.i r. of. three.)-Boys' and ■ youths' ,; wages: Boys and youths may oe employed at: la» tuaoiction of the employers,' provided the .following i: rates of wages be : —Between i the ages ofl4 and 15, 12s; 15 and 16, 15s; .16 and 17, 18s f Xi and 16, £1 Is; 18 arid 19, £I'ss;; 19 and 20,' £1 10s; 20 and 21, £1 15s per week., Provided that if *a. gut-boy/ attends to three; slaughtermen, he shall- receive the full rate of pay.

All ; time ■ worked j beyond tho \ recognised hours of . labour is to be paid for at the rate of time and a-quarter. With reference to the remainder of the men's demands, • which, were withdrawn •> owing to the I Court ; not hairing.", time Cto deal ■; with them, Mr. F. Bust, representing the Auckland Slaughtermen's Union, : has made ;;'; application, , tinder sections '51 'and;' 52 of the Conciliation, and Arbitration Act, to the Govornbr-ih-Cbuncil for: the appointment - of; a : special Board- of Conciliation to consider,the matters, such Board to consist of two butchers' employees and two master butchers, the present chairman of ; the Board, v, ' , - . y