SHIPBUILDERS' DISPUTE.
PARTIES DISCUSS AWARD.
PROPOSAL BY EMPLOYERS.
A sitting of the Conciliation Council was held yesterday, when negotiations were continued in an endeavour to effect a settlement between employers and employees in the ship, yacht, and boat boat building industry. The conciliation commissioner, Mr. T. Harle Giles, presided, and the assessors were as follows:— tile employers, Messrs. George Niccol, W. H. Brown, and W. Lowe; for the union, Messrs. K. McLennan, George Coleman, and W. Pagen.
The union asked for a 44-hour week, and the employers argued that the present 47-hour week was a satisfactory arrange-" ment. The union asked, further, for an increne of 5d an hour in the wages of boatbuilders, and of 4d an hour, in the wages of shipbuilders, making a general wage of Is 8d an hour. It was also asked that the provisions relating , to ■ overtime, and docking should.he amended. • The matters in dispute were exhaustively discussed, and a proposition, was, put forward by the employers, which the assessors for the union undertook to place before their members. The dispute was then adjourned until May 19, at 9.30 a.m„ in the hope that a settlement would be reached. • * .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15912, 8 May 1915, Page 9
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