WAGES IN PRINTING TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1932, Page 5

WAGES IN PRINTING TRADE

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MASTERS SEEK NEW AWARD. ♦. OFFER OF REDUCED WAGES. By Telegraph.—Prew Aeedeiatio*. ’ -Wellington, Last Night. Little progress was made in the Conciliation Council to-day when the proceedings arising out of the dispute between the New Zealand Master Printers’ Association and the New Zealand Federated Newspaper Proprietors’ Association on the one hand and the New Zealand Federated Typographical Association of Workers on the other hand were begun. . The case is the result of a citation by the employers. After a preliminary study of the employers’ proposals,. which were accepted as a basis for negotiation, and a lengthy discussion of the clasrifieatitm clause, upon which a sharp difference of opinion made itself apparent, the proceed* Ings were adjourned until I'D o clock tomorrow morning. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr, W. Newton, presided. The employers’ proposals provide that the Dominion shall be classified into four groups according to the population of the centres, and that the wages rates shall vary accordingly. Following are the proposed rates of pay in class I. (cities with a population Of 30,000 and over), the award rates given in parentheses: Linotype operators, £4 10s (£5 10s, less 10 per cent); monotype operators, £4 7s 6d (£5 7s; less 10 per cent.); other operators, £4 4s (&> 2s fid, less 10 per cent.). The proposed wages of linotype operators according to classification are: Class I, £4 10sj class (cities and towns with populations tween 10,000 and 30,000), £4 9s; class HL, (between 4000 and 10,000), £4 7s; class IV. (under 4000), £4 ss; stone and bulk hands and machine correctors in four main centres, £4 4s. It is proposed that night workers shall receive Is 6d a night extra, with a minimum of 7s fid a week extra.. Among the proposed alterations to the present award are higher efficiency and speed for operators, a 44-hour week, overtime at the rate of time and a quarter and an annual holiday of one week without pay- , The workers counter-proposals are on the basis of the present award. The Auckland union, which is nof a member of the federation, entered separate proposals embodying a 5 per cent, wages -increase on the present award. Discussion on the classification clause occupied the greater part of the afternoon, the progress made being limited to a clarification of the attitude of bpte parties.