INDUSTRIAL DEMANDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL DEMANDS.

♦ SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES IN SYDNEY. (Australian ana N.Z. Cable Association) \ SYDNEY, Feb. 17. A mass meeting of wharf laborers decided to resume work. Tht wheat loaders' dispute lias also* been settled, pending a conference with oversea shippers. WELLNGTON, last night. The National Disputes' Committee m the coal trade met , to consider the Blackball trouble. Both parties stated subsequently that they had 'nothing Vet to report. ' ■ Delegates of the Railway Officers' Institute conferred this afternoon with the Minister of Railways on the question of salary and other matters. The Minister will meet the representatives of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants on Thursday. $ . . AUCKLAND, last night. A settlement was reached on the wages question m the Dominion drivers' dispute by the Conciliation Council m committee this evening. The wages agreed upon- are £3 6s for a one-horse driver and £3 8s for a two-horse driver, with stable time of four and eight hours/ respectively at Is 4£d per hour. Thd employers: -will pay for nine holidays specified m the old award,. No deduc- „ tion will be made m wages save for time lost through the workers' own default or sickness. The Arbitration Court gave its decision m the Soft Goods Employees' dispute to-tyy... ; The. only questions of importance were; <hout» and: preference. Tho Court said that the hours were governed by the Shops and Offices Act and it dio!. not see its way to interfere with these hours m respect to. one particular class of shop. No preference was jßegarding . f eqfcle emjyoyees, thfe Court.- decided that I ' -any feiriale m the dress, manchester, drapery, furnishing, men's and juvenile clothing, mercery, piece silks, velveteens, carpets, linoleums, bedding, ; cotton dress, goods, $$ n s?» etc., "departments shall be paid , one-half more ,tnan the wages specified for females m the scale.