CANTERBURY LABORERS' DISPUTE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11842, 4 May 1909, Page 3

CANTERBURY LABORERS' DISPUTE

TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT-

(Per Press Association.) , - CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The agreement arrived at by the parties m the general laborers' dispute has been filed. A memorandum to tlie 'award states that it deals specifically with the building trade laborers, and is intended to apply also io workers employed by local bodies, contractors, and quarry owners, and to workers employed by other employers w i?n t. '1..3 work similar to that done by th,el'.c«U bodies, contractors, and quarry ttttitrs. The conditions will not apply ♦-> <my work done m the ordinary et-urrc ,n farm work. The Christchurch Drainage Board is exempt from the operations of the award rs far as its perm .meant t<att is: concerned as long as; 4 :s w»rnng under the present conditions. '• a similar condition appliesj-o the Tinum . ..l,ci-. ouch Council, Ibo agreement i> to copunence from June 4th and remain m force for three yj»wr It. wiH n.so. apply to the whole of the LvvutWy industrial district. In the tUMiwl-v-; Jj the minimum wage of tunnel mew mA timber men is not less than Is , J per boiir; quarries-quarry men, .lammer «»nd drill men; *™sher men, spawkrs, T l. te- , layers,- asphalt' miners, Is Id I*£ *^ ' • general labours ls per hour; building Lrks-men m charge derncfcjU sea - fold men m attendance on bricklayers, Is lld per hour. In the Tim.) ru aw«u-d the Tords, "Men m attendance ontej; layers," are deleted and "hod catnats nSdi General laborers -ill receive not' less' than Is per hour, overturn ; w to be paid at the rate of time, and a JTuarter^for the , first fo V hours, and time ani a half afterwards, and for « ,>k on New" Year's- Day Easter nd*y ,s Labor D^y, Stow. Day, aod T.* ing Day; .and double time on Lhn»Li»u». DaY, -Good Friday, and Bundays .