Rural Workers' Union.

Southern Cross, Volume 19, Issue 26, 21 October 1911, Page 6

Rural Workers' Union.

♦ i Log of Wages & Conditions. , COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSALS In anticipation of Arbitration Court proceedings, the Rural Workers' Union of Australia has prepared a log of wages and conditions which are interesting to New Zealand workers : AGRICULTURE. Hours, 48 per week; work to cease at , moor* on Saturdays. RATES. Binder, stripper, and harvester drivers, i 9s day or £2 10s week. Suick builders and thatchers, 12s 6d day. Cane cutters, £2 10s week. Sugar-mill hands, general farm hands, ploughmen, and drill drivel's, £1 15s week (where board and lodging are not provided, 12s 6d extra to be added to the above rates); where the drivers attend to their own teams, after the usual working hours, 7is 6d a week to be allowed in addition. Such work not to be considered as overtime. OVERTIME. After 48 hours, Is 3d per hour for harvester, binder, and stripper drivers, and cane cutters, 2s hour for stack builders and thatchers, and Is 3d hour for harvest, hands, farm hands, ploughmen, drill drivers, and sugar-mill hands. GRAIN CARRYING AND STACKING. The hours of those employed in graincarrying and stacking to be from 7.30 to 5 p.m. on five days of the week, with one hour for dinner, and from 7.30 a.m. to 1 p. m. on Saturdays, and rates of pay : as follows : Carrier's, and stackers, 12s day. ] Truckers, 10s day; piecework, f d per day each way, in and out of stack; overtime, after 8 hours on any day, 2s per hour. Sundays and holidays, double time. CHAFFCUTTING. j Hours, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on five days of the week, with one hour for ■dinner, and from 7 a.m. to noon on, Saturdays. Two "smokee-ho" of 15 minutes each on the forenoon and afternoon of each day. Engine drivers and feeders, 12s 6d day or £3 per week. Rag sewers, 10s day or £2 15s week. Baggers, 9s day or £2 10s week. All other employees, 8s day or £2 2s week, board to be provided in addition; overtime, after 48 hours, time and a half. THRASHING GRAIN. Hours, 48 per week, to be made up the same as chaff cutters. Engine drivers, 12s 6d day or £3 week. General hands, Is hour or £2 2s week. "Chaffy,'-' Is 3d hour or £2 8s week. Overtime, after 48 hours: Enginedrivers 2s hour, general hands Is 3d hour, "Chaffy" Is 6d hour, board in addition. MARKET GARDENING. Hours, 48 per- week, to cease at noon, on Sa.turda.ys. Wages (with board and lodging), £1 15s week. When board and lodging is not provided, £2 8s week. Overtime, after 48 hours, Is 3d hour. FRUIT GARDENING.

Hours, 48 per week, from 7.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on five days of the week, with one hour for dinner, and from 7.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Men and women, over 17, 8s day. Dippermen, barjowmen, carriers-out from dip, and lumpers, 9s day. General factory hands and workers (not classified), 8s day. Roys and girls and factory hands (under 17), 6s day. Overtime in daylight, Is 3d hour ; after dark and on Saturdays, Is 6d hour, or part thereof. Women, boys, and girls not to work overtime. Piecework or task system not to be permitted. VITICULTURE. Hours, 48s per week. Work to cease at noon on Saturdays ; wages with board and lodging), £1 15s week ; without board and lodging, £2 8s; overtime, after 48 hours, Is 3d houT. DAIRYING Hours, 48 per week. Milkers over 18 years, £1 15s week; under 18, £1 2s 6d; board ajid lodgang in addition. Overtime, Is 3d hour. BUTTER AND CHEESE, CREAMERY, AND CONDENSED MILK FACTORIES. Hours, 48 per week. Wages, foremen £3 10s week. Engine-drivers, £3 ss. Butter-makers, cheese- makers, testers, and graders, £3. Firemen, weighers, and packers, x,c K>s. Workers (not classified), £2 10*. Youths, 18s to 20, £1 15s. Youths, 16 to 18, £l. Casual workers, Is 6d hour. Overtime, time and a quarter. Night work, time and a half; Sundays, public holidays, and meal hours, double time.

Cooks, for 12 men. or under, £2 10s week. For every additional man above 12, 4s each. GENERAL CONDITIONS. - Preference to nrnonusts. Provision for aged or inferior workers. Sub-letting disallowed. No piecework except as provided for in the log. A registered officer of the union; to have the right to inspect a farm, dairy, olfactory. If the log is adopted, labour bureaus to be established, by the association, im each Staite capital. Public holidays : New Year's Day, A.N.A. Day, Eight-hour Day. Good Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing'Day, King's Birthday, and any other proclaimed holiday. The task system not to be allowed, and employees engaged working "broken time" to receive 25 per cent-, above the ordinary rates of weekly hand, as provided in the log.