STONEMASONS' WAGES.
INCREASE IN DUNEDIN. : TBT TELEGRAPH. -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dtjnedin, Thursday. The Arbitration Court has filed an award in the Dunedin Operativo Stonemasons' dispute. Tho award comes into force on Monday next, and will be enforceable for two years. A memorandum attached to tho award states that the principal question was a minimum wage for journeymen stonemasons. A minimum of Is 6d an hour was fixed by the Court at Auckland, and by the parties in Christehurch. This was the minimum offered by the employers in the present dispute. The Court decided to fix the minimum at Is 7*d an hour. Builders had agreed to fix the minimum wage of carpenters at Is 6d an hour, and stonemasons in the past always had higher wages than carpenters. The rate fixed by an agreement in Wellington is Is Bd. The Court has substituted the usual clauses relating to apprentices, preference and under-rate workers, for those con' tamed in the recommendation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15481, 12 December 1913, Page 7
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