CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 75

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

GREYMOUTH, January 19. The Conciliation Council, under the commissioner (Mr W. H. Hagger), to-day dealt with a dispute between the chemists’ section of the Westland Shop Assistants’ Union and the employers, when an award on the line, of the Canterbury retail chemists’ assistants was, with a few alterations, agreed to. In the case of the dispute between the Westland boilermakers and iron workers and the employers, an agreement was reached on the lines of the engineers’ Dominion award, with the exception of certain clauses in which no finality was reached, and which were accordingly referi’ed to the Arbitration Court. These' were all clauses relating to wages. The improvers’ clause, piecework, and premium bo'-'us, engineering students, the term of the award, clause K relating to overtime in the Dominion award, and providing for any worker brought back from his home at night to be guaranteed a minimum of two hours’ pay at the time and a-half rate, was agreed to. Variations were made in regard to night shift, working in heat and cold, and access ,to the workshops. A new clause was inserted that workers when required to travel by steamer shall have a saloon passage on other than mail steamers provided. It was also agreed that if any dispute should arise between the parties to the award upon matters connected with it, it would be referred to a committee of three representatives on each side, and if no decision were arrived at either side could refer it to the Arbitration Court.