LABOUR DISPUTES.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, January 22. At the Conciliation Board to-day the Boilei’makers’ and 'Shipbuilders’ Union cited all employers in Otago and Southland. Their claims are:—4B hours per week; boilermakers to receive not leas than Is 6d per hour, overtime at one and a half ordinary' rates, except on statutory holidays, when double time is demanded: apprentices to be indentured for five years after three months' probation, with one apprentice to every journeyman; country workmen to be paid fares both ways, besides living expenses on job; preference for unionists; boilermakers emploved on repairing work to receive Is a day extra as “dirt money.” The case is proceeding. After hearing addresses and evidence in the dispute between the Boilermakers’ ana the Iron Shipbuilders’ Union and the master ironfounders* the Conciliation Board intimated that its decision would be given on February 2nd;
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4262, 23 January 1901, Page 5
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