EMPLOYERS' TAKE ACTION.

Colonist, Volume LVIIL, Issue 14329, 3 February 1917, Page 6

EMPLOYERS' TAKE ACTION.

FILE DISPUTE FOR COUNCIL OF CONCILIATION.

SCALE OF LABOUR RATES

Chrjstchurcft, Jan. 31 On February 27th the Conciliation Council will hear a dispute which has been filed by the New Zealand Shipping; Company against the New Zealand 'Waterside Workers' Federation - and J adustrial Association of Workers and ihe'Lj'ttelton Wharf Labourers' Union. ioie assessors for the employers are Messrs 8. K. Sleigh (Dnion Steam Ship Company) Joseph Garrard (Kinsey ;trid Co., Lyttolton), and'H. J. Elliott (?^w ■ 'Zealand Shipping Company)... ■; ■t na\\- application states that, as -the «:;;>iiievences -which .have been lield, beUyuer, tfio vnprss-euti»iives^of/.\t"lie^sliij>^: •p'.ng conipnnii.'.s and the ivatei'side v-ork?i"s:.'h.ave-bei-u unajiic to arrive )i'M i'.gre»x/jents ori the demands made -tor" o cfcra pay, and v altered conditions of labour, the matter?: in .dispute-are rcfoirred to the' Conciliation .Council/;,'..'•

The demands made by the applicants' im.hn.le:— ' Une shilling and oightpence per hour, for steveddru and .-general cargo work, with 2s dd an hour .for overtime till 10 p.m., and 2s 9d for overtime from 10 .p.m. to. b a.m. Special cargoes in bags, in quantifies of more than I*s : tous, :Js id, 2s lid, and iJs 3d. Special' cargoes in bags, in quaitities of more than 2o tons, Is lOd, ,2s Bd, and 2s lid. rtxpiosiv.es, Is lOd, 2s Sd, and 2s lid. All work in slicds and stores, Is Bd, 2s 6d, and. 2s yd. Siiovellmg eggettes and 'briquettes,. Is 9d, is ; u , and 2s lOd. feiio\ oi;mij; coal in bulk when digging is requ.^uT Is 9d, 2s Yd, and 2s~ lOci. Sho.eliing ballast, Is 9d. 2s 7d, and 2s lOci. Other demands regarding wages bear I a, 'corresponding relation to those now I being paid. [The above demands (made by the New Zealand Shipping Company) are, according to a Wellington paper, thej-i-ates fixed for the different classes of work under the agreement which has i been. in force with the Wellington! , I Waterside Workers' Union.] L!