WORK AND WAGES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, July 12. The Conciliation -Board announced its recommendations in a number of dis. putes to-day. In the hosiery trade dispute dho hours were Used at 43 per week. The rates of pay u in woollen factories were made as per logs attached. The minimum weekly wage is fixed at *2os per week; beginners are to be paid 7s for the first six months. Ids for the second, 12s 6d for the third, ISg for the ‘fourth six months, X7s 6d for the third year, and thereafter 20s j a joint committee ’of equal numbers from each side is to have power to decide all questions arising 'out of the agreement; overtime of 6d per hour is added; waiting time for'yam is to be paid for at 6d per hour; all work to be done Within the factory.

In the plumbers’ dispute, the hours were fixed at from! 8 o’clock to 5 on fit* days,'apd till noon on Saturday, provided that on that day boys shall work an extra half an hour to clean up; all plumbers and gasfitters to be -paid Is 3d per hour, except where not capable of earning it, when the rate is to b B fixed by) a ’committee; ope apprentice allowed to one journeyman. 1 In the sailmakers’ dispute. 48 hours is fixed as th> week’s work; piece work to be ’as per schedule; every journeyman to be paid not loss than, Is per nonr ab cover making, and Is 4d at sailmafcing;' travelling timefo he alowed; apprentices to serve five years, the proportion to be one to every three journeymen.