NEW PRINTING AWARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 2 November 1912, Page 5

NEW PRINTING AWARD.

(For Press Association.) Wellington, November 2. The printers’ Dominion award divides the towns into two' classes, viz., over and under 2boo of a circulation. Linotype and monotype operators in the four cities arc to receive for daj work £3 Its 6d, for night work £4 2: per week. All others £3 1 Os. and £: 10s respectively. Monoline rates arc— First division £3 Cs and £3 12s, second division £3 and £3 Gs. SimplexFirst division £3 and £3 6s, second £2 lbs and £3 Is. Bulk hands in the cities will receive £3 5s for day work and £3 10s and £3 15s for night work.

Youths and girls may be employee: as justiliers or spacers on simplex machines, and as caster attendants or. monotypes, at wages to be agreed upon. Speed efficiency on linotypes remain; as before, except that 7000 is the miurnum required in fifteen months; g., monolines 4500 is the minimum. Piece work rates are unaltered, except that night operators get onetenth extra. Overtime on machines counts time and a half, and on handwork time and a third. , Apprentices may not he employed on machines till they have had two years’ instruction as compositors. Blocks shall be charged for by the operator. For handwork the rates arc—Frsl. division, day, i.‘3 ss, night £'.‘3 10s; second division-£2«ss aqd £l3. ,

No proportion of apprentices appears to have been fixed for machines, but for handwork the proportion is one for the house and one for each three journeymen.

Weekly wages under the award arc not subject to deduction, save for holi days or through sickness or default oi workers.

Preference is gßeh to union',sus ii there is a meniher of the local union qualified and willing to take the place of the non-unionist, hut this (loos not apply to female workers. The award is for three years until October 31st, 1915. The Court states it found it ;hnp<)ssihle to. provide for readers.