TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11044, 23 February 1898, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

WJELLINGTON TAILORBSSBS1 DISPUTE;

(Pkr United Pb'ess AssocilTioN.)

• February 22. The Conciliation Board met to-day to consider the union's demands with regard to-the tailoresses' dispute., The union demands :—

(1) That employers pay according to. the Weilmgcon Tailors' Unioutime statement of May," 1897; at the rate of. 8d p»r hour (less pressing) to all tailoreeses employed on piecework. (2) That the wages for.weekly hands be: Coat hands £1 17s 6d, vest hands £1 10s, trouser hands £1 10s« machine hands—first class £1 16s, second class £1 10s.-. (3) That the-number of appreriticesor improvers be limited to one to every five or.fraction of the first five operatives fully employed.- . (4) 'That apprentices and 'improvers be indentured— coat hands for three years;'veßt hands, trousermakers, and. machining hands for one year., (5) That .apprentices Be paid not less than 2s 6d weekly for the first, 5s for the second, 7s'6d forthe third, and 10s for the fourth three months of th» first year; and thereafter an increase of 2i 6d at the end'of each, six months to the end of the apprenticeship., (6) That overtime be paid for at the rite of: time and a-quarter. (7) That the members of the Tailqresses Union be employed.ia preference, if equally competent, with nonunionist?. "(8) That all ordered wort be done in the shop of employer. (9) Employers shall hot discriminate against members of the union.

The log was fully discussed, and an adjourn* mont made until to-morrow. - • :>

THE KAURI GUM COMMISSION. (Pjsr United Pbess Association.)

, ...•',. , Auckland, February 22. v * ' The 6am Commissioners found very large num* bers of Austrians on the Mangawhia gumfields and a great many of the settlers excited about the prospect of having the fields skinned of gum by an additional influx; After completing the taking of evidence at Mangawhia, and visiting the various camps of -the, Austrian?, &c., the commissioners, proceeded to Wark worth, where they obtained some very, important evidence in connection with the influx of Austrians. Tha commissioners returned to Auckland this afternoon, and intend taking evidence here.