CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. CHISTCHURCH, December 5.

Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 8

CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. CHISTCHURCH, December 5.

The Arbitration Court was engaged all dayhearing the dispute in the plumbers' and gasfitters' trade. The employees were willing' to accept* the award of the'Conciliation'Board,'. with the exception of two clauses, but'tlle e'faployer3 declined the a ard generally. .. Two firms cited were dismissed, and the case adjcumed till Thursday. ' * [ Tho following are the Conciliation Board's recommendations in the tramway dispute: — (1) Eight hours shall constitute a day's work an - l 48 hours a week's work; (2) guards and horse-drivers to be paid the minimum wage of 7s 6d per day, and road men and grooms a minimum \^a^e of 7s per day ; (3) all wages to - be paid weekly ; (4) all time worked in excess of eight hours on any day shall be considered overtime, and paid for at the rate of time- and . a-quarfeer up to 10 hours "jer" day, and feoyoiid 10 hours at time and a-halfr (5) alfj^ork performed on statutory or public JioUdaya, and Sundays to bo paid for at time and a-lalf ;' (6) employers ahall-give" preference of 1 employment to unionists. • An. industrial' agreement ■embodying tho 'above conditions' to be entered . into on or before December -9i'"and'tobe for a term of two years from that date. the dispute between the New Zealand Federated Boot Trade' Industrial Union and Messr3 Skelton, Frostick, and Co., the Conciliation Board's recommendation is as follows:—"That, in the opinion of the board, tho present award was based upon work to bo done on iron lasts. If wooden lasts bo substituted, an extra rate of 12£ per cent: shall be paid to bench men therein until tho expiration of the present award. When the ,nrcsent award expires this question then to bo brought forward for reconsideration."