CONCILIATION BOARD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 57

CONCILIATION BOARD.

TIMBER-YARDS AND SAWMILLS : DISPUTE..

‘ The recommendation of the Concilia, tion Board in the timber-yards and saw-

mills industrial dispute was delivered yesterday. The chairman stated that the Labour Department having been closed on the previous day, he had not received the usual type-written copies for distribution among the parties and the press. He then proceeded; to read the Board’s recommendation from the original draft, which was in effect,as follows: . A week of forty-six hours; weekly wages for competent men at planing and .moulding machines, £2 15s ; at circular saws, breaking down timber, £2 8s; at circular saws, 7 in finer work, £2 14s ; all other machines referred to in demands, £2 15s. All wages mentioned are at minimum rates. A weekly wage of £3 to be paid to all drivers of over 5 h.p. engines, and £2 10s for engines under that -Sower,;-; yardismen solely employed receiving and giving out timber shall he

- paid £3 per week, and competent un- , -skilled workmen £2 ss; ; all casual la--jbonr shall ,be ; employed 'at Is Id per -hour, or B|s 6cl ; per ,^y f kwitk‘prdpdrfci6iial . 'increases in, the case 'of higher-class Workmenthe ordinary clause in the awards of the Court: dealing with rates

of pay of in comp etent workmen is ins erted in the- recommendation; - the subject of the number of incompetent workmen to competent workmen is also dealt with; overtime allowed time and a quarter for the first two hours. The Board made no . recommendation as to payment for holidays in which, no work

u was done, hut all work done on holi- * days must he paid at overtime rates. ", Machinists? boys (one to each l man) shall

' Ibe paid 12s 6d per week at. commenoerebnt, and the gradnal increase demand- ' ed shall be; phid in the manner specified : by the Board. Wages shall be paid ' weekly within fifteen minutes after leav- ' ang, wdrk. The usual preference and G penalty clauses are in the award. The

• recommendations, are to continue in , force from March 2, 1901, to March 1, 1903, inclusive. •: The Board adjourned at 12 o’clock.