TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12009, 11 December 1924, Page 2

TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE

COMPLETE agreement REACHED. 1 HEIGHT INCREASE IN WAGES. Per Press Association - OHBISTOKU&GS, December 10, After a long sitting yesterday and another session to-day a conciliation council settled the wages and conditions affecting typographers of New Zealand. As the dispute was a Dominion one there were representatives from both the North and South Islands on the council. A alight increase in wages on the present award rates was agreed to, and: the conditions were on the lines of the previous award. A complete • agreement was arrived at. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr W. H. Hagger, presided. RATES OF PAY. The following minimum weekly rates • of pay were fixed': Linotype and intertype machines, first division £6 10s; second division, £5 6s; monotype machines, first division, £6 7s; second division, £5 2a; monoline, typograph, barotype, simplex, and other composingmachines. first division, £5 2s 6d; second, £A 11s. The rates for night work were 10 per cent, extra. BULK BANDS. Bulk hands and machine correctors, £5 2h 6d day work, and £6 ISp 6d for night work;. second stone hands £6 17b 6d for night and £5.7e 6d for.day work'. EFFICIENCY SPEED. The present efficiency speed for the operators clause and the present clause regarding probationers were agreed to. The divisions were fixed as follow: First division, the cities of Auckland', Wellington, 'Christchurch, and Dunedin, and a radius of ten miles of these cities; second division, towns outside this area, but in the monoline and other machines section the first di- - vision was for places of a population of over 6000, ana -the second division towns of under. 6000 inhabitants. a HOURS AND OTHER CONDITIONS. , , The piecework clauses in the present' award were accepted, and the present hours of work for time for workers was also agreed to. These were 42 a week. The union asked for 40 hours for day work and 38 for night work, and the employers offered 48 and 45 respective-, ly. Holidays as in the present award, were agreed to. The call payment clause of the present award was struck out., and provision that tea money should be paid at the rate of 2s 6d for journeymen and Is 6d for apprentices.; Conditions relating to piecework and the guarantee of hours to efficiency piecework operators were agreed to as in the old award with a few minor .alterations. JOBBING WORE. For hand and .jobbing work' the wages were: • For cities and towns with a population of 6000 £5 2s 6d a week; for places of under 6000 inhabitants, £4 15s a week;' casual bulk hands .! and others to be paid as under the old award, and night work to he paid 10] per cent, extra. The present hours of work (46 a weak) were, agreed to, and it was decided to eliminate all refer-, enoe to piecework for hand and jobbing workers. All "the clauses relating to apprentices were dropped as this _ matter 1 is now covered by special legislation. : For apprentices the "general conditions bearing on the work of machine and .liand workers were fixed on the lines of the old award. • i '" : After some discussion' it was agreed, that the award should come into force on January Ist, 1925, and • remain- in operation until March Ist, 1927. EMPLOYERS THANKED ; FOR ' ■ * ' GENEROSITY. Mr F. Ferguson thanked the employers for... the generous way in which > they • had met Hie men, and referred to the satisfactory result of the council’s sittings. Mi" A. G. Henderson replied that the employers had determined to improve the . conditions of lower paid men, and they had no;regret at what: had been done'. He thanked Mr Hagger for his patient hearing‘of the die-* pute, a dispute which was one of the most and certainly the most j technical dilute ' in , the Dominion. ,; Mr Haggggjpaid that a conciliation ; spirit hadpean shown on both sides, >' and he was?l««ugbted that the council; had settled' such a difficult-dispute. It was always advisable that a dispute of that nature'-should he settled by the j Conciliation Council. " ]