TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13421, 23 October 1905, Page 3

TRADES AND LABOUR.

- THE BOXWORKERS' DISPUTE. Tho following is tho award of tho Arbitration Court in the dispute between the Otago Boxworkers' Union and tho employers:— 1. Cloth and leather'work to bo paid at the rate of 7d per hour; any work or boxes not mentioned in the attached log to be classified with tho nearest item, provided thai if ihcro be no item near enough to be taken as a basis tiio work shall be paiill for at the rate of Gd per hour.

2. In tho event- oKany new line of boxes being made, the price, lor making such boxes shsill 03 pureed upon by the secretary of txio ur.ion rjid Mt Call Otto, or if J1.3 if-, ;iot availabi£: «uch; other person as the employer may suggest; 'in the event of their not agreeing, then the price shall be fixed by tho chairman of the Conciliation Board. . 3. Apprentices for iho first six months shall receive 53 per • week, for the second six months 7s 6d per week, for the third six mr ulhs per week, or, if desired by the employer, piecework for the third six months. 4. After being 18> months at tho trade an apprentice shall bo entitled to rank as a bexmaker, and to be paid not iess than 20a •por v.-rek, or piecework at log rates. 5. Boxniaker-s teaching apprentices shall be paid at a weekly wage rate. 0. Tile foregoing prices shall not affect in any way the wages paid for machwo work. If apprentices from 12 to 16 months at the >rade are employed on machine work they shall ba paid at a rate not- les3 tlmn 3d per hour. Boxmakers on machine work who have su-vetl their apprenticeship or hr.ve been over 18 mouths at the trade shall bo paid not less tnan Gd per hour.

7. Workers shall not be called on to attend or be .detained when thera is no work for them in hand, unless the employer haa an actual prospect of work rendering their attendance necessary. When the work is not ni hand, but ihcro is a prospect of work, tho hands shall )ict he unnecessarily detained, hut when feaaiblo shall be given an hour at which 10 return.

8. Members of the. Otngo Boxmakers' Industrial Union of Workers are to be employed in preference to non-members, prov:ded tlis-re are members ot the union equally qualified (vit-h non-meinbsrs and ready and willing to perform' the work. llie schedule attached to the award 13 of a, technical character.

: Tlio effect oil November lit-xl, and continues in force for tlireo years.