FIRM IN NINE AWARDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22714, 28 April 1937, Page 12

FIRM IN NINE AWARDS

EXEMPTION FROM TENTH BRICKLAYERS' DISPUTE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON, Tuesday "If there is any prize given for a firm getting into the greatest number of awards we might withdraw this objection as we are covered by nine awards up to this date," stated a letter from Irvine and Stevenson's St. George Company, Dunedin. to the Conciliation Council in the dispute between bricklayers arid employers. "While it will make no difference to us it' we are cited under, say, the dairy manufacture or • shearers' awards,' the letter continued, "we wish fo lodge a formal objection." The objection was upheld. The dispute is between the Federated Bricklayers and the Federated Builders and Contractors and is Dominion-wide in scope. Assessors from Canterbury are attending to bring a separate dispute there into line with the Dominion dispute. It was agreed that the hours be eight on five days a week between 7.-50 a.m. and 5 p.m.. with an hour for lunch, hut an employer may agree with the workers to allow not less than half an hour. Overtime was ' settled at time and a-lialf for the first four hours and double time thereafter, also double time for Sundays and holidays. The council adjeurned till to-morrow afternoon to enable the parties to discuss the wages question.