PRINTING TRADE
COURT REFUSES TO AMEND RATES NEW APPRENTICESHIP ORDER (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 11. The Arbitration Court has refused io make the order applied for by the Wellington and Wairarapa master printers for an amendment of the rates of wages as fixed by the Wellington district except as to the Wanganui district printing trade apprenticeship order. ihe employers asked that the scale be the same as that fixed for the northern district. Mr Justice Frazer said the rates set out in that scale were approximately 5 per cent, lower than those now authorised for the Wellington district. lie rates for Otago and Southland were the same as those for the Wellington district. The terms of the new award tor journeymen increased the wages by approximately 5 per cent. If the court were to make the amendment applied for the rates for apprentices would be relatively less than those of workers who could come under the new award, whereas if the rates now current for apprentices were maintained the ratio of apprentices rates to journeymen’s rates would be as it was at the time the apprenticeship order was made.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 10
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191PRINTING TRADE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 10
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