WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 92, 13 December 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

LABOURERS’ DEMANDS

(For Press Association.) Wellington, December 12. All the suburban municipalities and the other large employeis of general labour in the vicin.ty of Wellington have been, or are being, served wiim a new set of. claims by.tne General Labourers’ Union. It is claimed that a lull week’s work shall not exceed 4> hours, and shall not exceed eight hours on live days of the week and four hours on Saturday, the working hours to be between the hours of 7 a.in. ana 5 p.m. on live days of the, week, ana between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 noon onf Satiirddy. f Hi'tunnel work the hours shall not exceed eignt pel shift from bank to bank, with half an hour for crib time. Six hours sluili constitute a day’s work when workers are working in wet places, or in lorn air, and shall be paid for as d the workers had worked eight hours, i liefollowing are asked as the minimum rates of wages for the several classes, of workers: —Tunnel men and timbei men, 12s per shift; all other workers employed underground, 12s per shift; men engaged in sinking shafts, per shift; pipe-layers, Is 6d per hour; caulkers, powder men, hammei ami drill men, jumpermen and labourers engaged in drainage, sewerage and all other classes of labouring work no; herein specified, Is 3d per houi. Uvei time is sought at the rate of time and a half for the first two hours, and double time thereafter. Double pay n also asked for the work done on the following holidays: New Year s Day, Good Friday, Faster Monday, Labour Day, the birthday of the Sovereign, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

SHOP BUTCHERS’ UNION. (Received 9.30 a.in.) Sydney, December 13. The Shop Butchers’ Union has decided to give the legal week’s not.ce. but the members will not be open foi re-engagement except on the understanding that the shops close at six o’clock on Saturdays. A harrier to the argument with the master butchers is the existence of small shops without employees; if these refuse early closing, probably the slaughtermen wil. take action to prevent these receiving supplies.