The Waterside Workers and Shipping Companies

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10017, 7 December 1908, Page 4

The Waterside Workers and Shipping Companies

(Pes Press Association.) Dunedin, December 6. An aereement has been arrived at in the dispute between the Dunedin Waterside Industrial I'nion of Workers and the I various shipping companies carrying on | business in Dunedin. The agreement. has been filed with the Clerk of Awards, and will be made an award of the Court. The mitifanim wacee are fixed as follows: Handling cargo, stevedoring and general cargo woTk." including stackers and loaders, ordinary time, "is od ;>er hour: overtime. 2s. These rates do not apply to work done in freezing chambers. (B) Handling coal or coke in bulk—Men employed as wiuchmen. bullropemen. tippers, men shovelling in coals off ships or in hulks or trucks, men employed in shifting hulks or in risaing- gear on tramways, and all other work"in\-onnection with rigging gear for coal or coke cargoes, ordinary time Is 6d. overtime 2s. Men employed as plankmen. ordinary time Is 6d. overtime 2s. Men employed in trimming or carrying, ordinary" time Is 6d. overtime 2s 3d "per hour. (C) Handling frozen meat, carrying and stowing work in freezing chambers alward ship. • ordnniry tinie Is 6d per hour, overtime 2s bd : on wharf, ordinary time Is 6d. overtime 2s:. in cool chambers, ordinary time Is od. overtime 2s per hour. (D) Guano worKfrs in bulk, ordinary time Is 6d. overtime (F.) Casual nightwatchmen. 10s per nignt.