TIMBER WORKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22901, 2 December 1937, Page 15

TIMBER WORKERS

RESTRICTION OF HOURS AGREEMENT ON FIVE-DAY WEEK [bt telegraph—press association] "WELLINGTON, Wednesday The hearing of the New Zealand timber workers' industrial dispute was continued in Conciliation Council to-day. The conciliation commissioner, Mr. M. J. Reardon, presided. The five-day 40hour week, from Monday to Friday inclusive, was agreed to in principle for almost general application to the timber trades, but certain exceptions were made. ■ . Extensions of hours to include half-a-day's work on Saturday were agreed on in the cases of box factories,-rtown timber-yards supplying dunnage for ships, establishments operating drying kilns, and employees required " for loading for shipment or for lorrying. A proviso was made, however, that in such cases the total of hours- worked should not exceed 160 in four weeks, or more than 48 in any on 6 week. In the case of bush sawmills every attempt was to be made to work 40 hours on five days of the week, but the men so engaged might He permitted to make up time lost during the five days on Saturday. Mills in isolated situations, it was agreed, would be _ made exceptions as far as the restriction of hours of work to a five-day 40-hour week was concerned, but the decision as to what mills were to be so excepted was-left to the disputes' committee. c