CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION ACT. WELLINGTON, February 15.
The Conciliation Board this afternoon gave a decision in the coachbuilderV dispute. Tiie chief recommendations were: All competent workers shall be paid not less than Is 3d per hour; a week's work to be 48 hours, Saturday consisting of 4£ hours; boys to be indentured as apprentices for five years, with six months' profoaiion, the proportion of boys'to be one to three journeymen or fraction thereof; the number of labourers to be unrestricted; pieccwoik not to be allowed ; preference ol employment to be given to members ol the union. The agreement (which is to be signed by the 24th hist.) is to exist for 15 months. The president of the union slated that he would advise the union to accepi the recommendation. >
At Eanfurly at the beginning of the week 20D men were informed that their services would be dispensed with from the Otago Central works in the meantime. The approach of harvest and the scarcity of hands is said to be the reason for this step.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 15
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