ARBITRATION COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16500, 28 March 1917, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. ' NEW INDUSTRIAL AWARD. The industrial dispute between the Auckland Master Builders and Contractors and the Auckland District Carpenters r.nd (Joiners' Union was heard before the Arbitration Court yesterday. Mr. Justice Stringer presided, and associated with him were Mr. W. Scott, assessor for the employers, and Mr. J. A. McCullough, assessor for the employees. Mr. (i. Baildon appeared on behalf of the Builders' Association, and Mr. S. E. Wright for various institutions and timber companies. Mr. T. Bloodworth represented the union. The branches of the union applying for the award were Auckland, Eden, and Onehunga. The Hamilton, Rotorua, and Whangarei branches are to be 1 joined to the award. The Union's Demands. The union asked that joiners' machinists be brought under the award. Counter-proposals put in by certain of tho factories asked for an extension oi the hours of work to 47 a week. The union asked the Court not to reverse its decision of 1914, fixing the hours at 44 a week. ' The union asked for an increase in the minimum wage from Is 6d to 2s a hour. The union also sought the payment) of 2s a day extra to a man loft in charge of work, whether in a sbop or on a job. The union also sought new conditions of employment governing workers engaged upon the erection of concrete buddings, the termination of the employment of workers in »hops. carpenters employed on insulation work, the payment of 3d an hour extra to be paid to men engaged on specially dirty work, carpenters employed in freezes: works, payment for work done in meal hours, extra remuneration of Is a day for unduly heavywork, the provision of a special class of tools for special classes of work, and the operation of tho machinery clauses of.the award to men engaged on private work where neither profit nor reward was sought bv the person for whom tne work was done. A uniform pay-day, namely, Friday, was asked for, also that workers be paid during working hours, instead of waiting after .work ceased Tim? and ahalf for the first two hours' overtime, and double time thereafter were claimed. In addition to the holidays already fixed, th» anion asked for Saturday afternoon workers to be paid overtime if compelled to work on Saturday afternoons, Hie total prohibition of piecework was Bought, and[in connection with suburban work a radius of one mile and a-half was asked Z ? instead of two miles as at present New conditions relating o country work and the payment of 3s 4d a day «ua instead »of 2s, an amendment of the con di oi s governing the employment of apSees, an amended preference clause 2nd an amendment of that covering Serrate workers wore also included in ,he union's claims. The union asked that the award be made for one year. Counter-proposals.