ARBITRATION COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5603, 1 June 1905, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

AWARD TO THE BUTCHERS 4 DISPUTE.

The award of the Arbitration Court in the matter of flic dispute between tho Wellington Operative Industrial Onion of Workers and the ■•car Meat Preserving and Freezing Company (termed *' the employers ) has now been placed on the hlc of the Supremo Court. The award provides for the following minimum rates of wages;—First shopman £J pen week second .shopman £2 10 s third .shopman £2 Is; first small-goods man CJ, second £2 Is; man in charge of hawking cart, £2 Is; all these men to be found in addition to tho weekly wage, or, at tho employers’ option, to bo paid 10s per week extra. Riclcr-out, according to his age, such wage as is proscribed for boys of a similar ago, or if over the ago of twenty-eno years the same amount as is prescribed for a boy over tho age of eighteen and under twenty-cmc. Boys under sixteen, 30s per week; hoys over sixteen and under seventeen, 12s Cd per week; over pcvontccn and under eighteen, 1/s Gd ; boys over eighteen and under twentyone, £1 3s Od. Ridcrs-out and_bcys arc similarly to- he found or paid 7s (kl per week extra. General hands, £2 Is per week and found, or if not found IDs to he added to the weekly wage. Each casual hand to be paid Ds per day on any day except when employed for a Saturday only. If employed for a Saturday only the rate of pay to be 10s and found. On nnv day on which a casual hand h s not found is Gd to be added to his daily wage. The employment of casual boy labour by either employers or employees shall not bo allowed j and employees shall not bo permitted to have the assistance of boy labour at any time. "When any employer is regularly engaged in a rhop he is to he classed as a first shopman. If a small-goods man be not solely emplayed at small goods ho shall rank as a general hand. The following holidays are to bo allowed without any stoppage of pay: New Year’s Hay, Anniversary Hay, Good Friday, Faster Monday, the birthday of tho reigning sovereign. Labour Hay. Prince of Wales’s Birthday, and the clay on. which th© butchers’ annual picnic is held, provided that all employers parties to the award shall during any week in which a holiday or holidays occur have the of giving their employees tho extra time necessary to* comply with the weekly timelimit of tho award at any time during a holiday week or tho week succeeding tho same. The proportion of boys employed to men shall not exceed one boy to every three men or fraction of three men. This dees not relate to the employment of office clerks. Ail employee© other than, those engaged in. pork butchers’ shops aro to bo allowed meat not exceeding in value 5s per week. Tho hours of labour are not to exceed fifty-six in any week, and for the purpose of calculating tho hours of labour each of the holidays mentioned shall be deemed to bo a day on which eight hours have- been worked, although no work lias actually been dono on the holiday. Tho hours of labour in any week shall cease not later than 10 p.m. on every Saturday. Employers are to givo employment to members of tho union in preference to non-mombevs, provided that there are members of the union equally qualified with non-members to perform tho particular work required to bo done and ready to undertake it. Until the union complies with a provision for the amendment of their rules to admit members upon tho payment of an entrance fee nob exceeding 5s and subsequent contributions not exceeding 6d a week, the employers may engage workmen whether they are members of the union or not; hut no employer, in the dismissal or employment of workmen, or in the conduct of his business, shall do anything for tho purpose of injuring th© union directly or indirectly This award is to bind th© parties to it within a radius of fifteen miles from the chief Post Office, and the Court reserves to itself newer to extend the award no as to bind anv other person carrying on business within tho Wellington industrial district. The award came into operation yesterday.