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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 14

The Wanganui Society of Painters’ and Decorators’ Industrial Union of Workers has filed with the Olerk of Awards, Supreme Court, Wellington, a dispute with eighteen local employers. The men claim that the hours of labour shall be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for five days of the week and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, from September to April inclusive. During the remainder of the year, the working hours are to be 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. foir five days of the week and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Overtime worked to 8 p.m. as to be paid for at the rate of time and a quarter, between 8 p.m. and midnight at the rate of time and a half, and between midnight _ and the ordinary hour for commencing work at the rate of double time; overtime rates not to apply to country work, but noi workman to work more than ten hours m any one day. All wages is asked to be paid weekly, on Fridays, and the minimum rate demanded is Is 3id per hour. Provision is also sought for apprentices and incompetent wo!rkmen,and country work,also preference far unionists. Tuesday the 10th of May, at 10.30 a.m., is fixed for the hearing of the dispute by the Conciliation Board, at the Courthouse, Wanganui.