CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1161, 31 October 1917, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

» BOILERMAKERS' DISPUTE. The Conciliation Council met yesterday afternoon, when the adjourned meeting in connection with the dispute between the Boilermaker*', Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Industrial Union of Workers and the employers in the trade, was continued. Mr J. R. Triggs, Conciliation Commissioner, presided, and the assessors were:—Messrs H. R. l'riest, J. Moore, and C. Falconer, for the union, and Messrs F.»W. Anderson, G. Cooper, and Geo. Scott, for the employers. Mr Triggs said that all the union wanted was the employers to favourably consider the wages agreed upon at Dunedin. After a consultation between the employers' assessors, Mr .Anderson said that they hail agreed to accept the Dunedin wages, but at the same time 9/- per week was a terrible rise for the employers to face. The contracts now in hand should be finished under the old award. The scale of wages should be made for the lowest men, for the employers could easily pay abovo the award to a good man. The' union's assessors agreed to hold over the new award until December 31, the award to be in force for at least three vears.

The award provides for wages 1/6 per hour and a war bonus of l*td per hour. The scale of apprentices' wages under the new award is as follows: —First yeaT 15/-, second venr 17/6, third year 22/6, fourth year' 27/6. fifth year £2.