TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 8

TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE

WAGE INCREASE- DESIRED. NO AGREEMENT^«aAG|ED- ' ■T Per Press - * : CHRISTCHURCH, -December 9. The , demand , 0f... the ' New Zealand Federated f i Industrial Association of Workers; for a Dominion award formed the subject of -Conciliation Councii>iprocA«idingß tnie-morning.T The -application. ; of the Southland countr newspapersfor exemption was referred to the Arbitration Court! ; The union asked for the following rates of. payiDay newe operators, J 36 15s per week; day jobbing operators, JSt 15s per week ; for night * operators, 20 per cent, extra; casual operator a;’ !4s . per hour day work, 5s pen hour night wofk. ‘ . •* The employers offered“Fot ’day' operators in -the four centres; : J& b^perhsrrxik-,. outside in proportion; casuals c 3s^perihdjin daj'-, time, and 3s 6d per hduT night.'• 'v . .fhe union assessors paid they were aisk;. >ng for an increase in^> wHats"* bScanse newspapers and the printing trade gener-: ally were in a prosperous. contHtitm." The employees wished' to fiKarfe-jn, the pr6S-' penty, v Mr Huie, for the employeW said that if the increases were cost 'of printing would go up %U .oter• &a-. land. * The employers 'could #ibt pay jthe increases; which would be ;*iesed' oh 'tb' the nubho. .■"‘ v A lengthy place on the question - of. wages, hdfrrs.u -payment, 'for overtime .and but ;Up-‘ till ~ 9 o'clockt to-night, when the-council adj ournea, : no agreement had been^'reached, and the . case will be resumed *in the morning, -