TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18889, 11 December 1924, Page 10

TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE.

A COMPLETE SETTLEMENT.

SUCCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS.

[BX TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] v CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday.

A conciliation council has settled the wages and conditions affecting the typographers of New Zealand. As the dispute was a Pominion one, there were representatives from both North and South Islands on the council. A slight increase in wages on the present award rates was agreed to, and the conditions were on the lines of the previous award. A complete' agreement was reached. The following are among the minimum weekly rates of pay fixed:—Linotype and intertype machines, first division £5 10s, second division £5 ss; monotype machines, first division £5 7s, second division £5 2s; monoline, typograph, barotype, simplex and other composing machines, first division £5 2s 6d, second £4 lis. The rates for night work were fixed\at 10 per.cent, extra. Bulk hands and machine correctors, £5 2s 6d for day work and, £5 12s 6d for night work; second stone hands, £5 17s 6d for night and £5 7s 6d for day work. . . The first division comprised the cities of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and the area within a radius of 10 miles of these cities. The piecework clauses in the present award were accepted, and the present hours of work for time workers were also agreed to. Holidays as in the present award were agreed to. All the clauses relating to apprentices were dropped, as this matter is now covered by special legislation for apprentices. It was agreed that the' ward should come into force on January 1, 1925, and remain in operation until March 1, 1927. Mr. Ferguson thanked the employers for the generous way in which they had met the men, and referred to the satisfactory result of the council's sittings. Mr. A. G. Henderson replied that the employers had determined to improve the conditions of the"lower-paid men, and they had no regret at what had been done. The commissioner, Mr. Hagger, said that a conciliatory spirit had been shown on both sides, and he was delighted tnat the council had settled such a difficult dispute. It was always advisable-4hat a dispute of that nature should be settled by a conciliation council.