GAS STOKERS AND COKE lit

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13723, 13 April 1908, Page 6

GAS STOKERS AND COKE lit

A WELLINGTON AWARD.

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Welling to .v, Sat u r day. As the outcome of the dispute between the Wellington Gas (Stokers and (Jokers' Union and the Wellington Gas Company. Limited, the following award was to-day tiled with Mr. A. Stnbbs, clerk of awards. It is to take effect on April 13, 1908. and to continue in force until April 13. 1909. and sets out that a full week's work shall consist of seven shifts, of eight hours per shift. A leading stoker shall be paid not less than 10s 6d per shift, and an ordinary stoker not less than 9s 9d per shift. The holidays to be recognised are as follows: — New Year's Day, Anniversary Day, Good Friday. Ka-ster Monday, Prince of Wales' Birthday. Labour Day, Birth of the Sovereign, Christmas Day. Boxing Day, and picnic day, if observed as a holiday in the gasworks. Work done on these days shall l,e paid for at the rate of double time. The number of retorts to be drawn, and charged in such shift are not to exceed 20 for each stoker. • Whenever stokers are required to do full work on Sundays or holidays the employer shall provide a man to trim coke from the truck tips at least four hours during, the day. The employer shall provide accommodation to the satisfaction of the inspector of factories, to enable the workers to change their clothes, and have their meals apart from the other employees. A sufficient supply of shale shall be kept in the retort house to meet the requirements of Sundays, holidays, and nights. The union shall do all in its power to prevent any strike by any of the workers affected by the award, aifd if any strike shall ocjcur in which any members of the union shall take part such strike shall be prima facie evidence that the union had committed a breach of its duty. The Court reserves to itself full power, in the event of any such strike as last-mentioned occurring, to suspend, on the application of the employer, the operation of all or any of the provisions of the award for such period as the Court thinks proper.