LABOUR ITEMS.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 22. At the Conciliation Board to-day, the Boilermaker and Shipbuilders Union cited ! all the employers in Otago and Southland. Their claims" are :—3B hours per week, boilermakers to receive not less than 18d an hoar, overtime at one and a-half above the ordinary rates, except on statutory holidays, when double time is demanded; apprentices to be indentured for five years after three months' probation, with one apprentice to every journeyman; country workmen to be paid their fares both ways, besides living expenses on the job; preference for unionists ; boilermakers employed on repairing work to receive Is per day extra as " dirt money." AfteF hearing the addresses and evidence in the dispute between the Boilermakers' and Iron Ship Builders' Union and the master ironfounders, the Conciliation Board intimated that a, r decision would be given on 2nd February.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3477, 23 January 1901, Page 3
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