WORE AND WAGES.
rSPBOIAL TO PSBSB ASSOCIATION.} LONDON, Sept. 14.
STRIKE OF DOCKERS.
Pive hundred of the dockers of the Carron and Leith Shipping Companies have struck against a reduction in wages. The strike is likely to effect the Australian export trade.
THE FACTORIES BILL,
lJf»B Jr"B*BB ABBOOKATioB.I WELLINGTON, Sept. 15.
In the Legislative Council this evening Mr 'Stewart announced that a compromise in regard to the Faotorieß Bill had been agreed upon at the free conference of both Houses. He said it had been arranged that " factory or workroom," within the meaning of the Act, should be a place where three or more persona are employed ; that the maximum and minimum working space Bhall be fixed by regulation; that a "child" shall be boy of thirteen or girl of fourteen; that flour mills shall be exempted from the compulsory whitewashing clause; that the provision requiring young workere to have been educated up to Standard IV. shall be struck out; that factory doora shall be kept open for inspection of the premises' while work is proceeding ; that the hours of labour in factories and workrooms shall be eight hours on five days of the week, and five hours on Saturdays ; that woollen mills shall be permitted to work their employees forty-eight hoursjweokly at any hour after 7 a.m. and before 6 p.m. ; that overtime shall be permitted in factories on twenty days in tho year for three hours each day, with the consent of tho Inspector, who is alao to approve of the rate of payment; that females may be employed as typesetters at tho age of fifteen ; that appeals shall be allowed from an Inspector's decision to the Resident Magistrate ; that the Railway Commissioners' workshops shall be brought under the operation of the Act.
On the motion of Sir G. S. Whitmore il was decided to take the repqrt into con' sideration next day.
LABOUE DAY DEMONSTRATION. A meeting of delegates appointed to arrange for the annual demonstration on Labour Day was held in the Trades Hall on Thursday evening last. Mr K. Clark, Vice-President, was in the chair. October 28 was the day selected for the demonstration. A letter from the Bioyole Touring Club, offering to arrange the bicycle races on the occasion, was received, and it was resolved to invite the Club to Bend delegates to the next meeting. Mr W. I. Ballinger was elected President, and Moßars Cleworth and P. S. Parker VioePresidents ; Mr E. Heyder, General Secretary; Mr A. C. Andrews, Minute Secretary; and Mr C. Sjhofleld, Treasurer, the honorarium for each of tho three latter officers being fixed. It waß resolved to invito the Lyttelton Wharf Labourers' and the Bootmakers' Union to send delegates to the next and subsequent meetings, and to ask the Employers' Association to cooperate, and to name the date of tbe next year's demonstration, Messrs Ballinger, Sohofield and Simpson being deputed to wait on them with reference to these matters. It was also deoided to ask tho Eailway Servants' Association to intercede with the Railway Commissioners, with a view of securing a holiday on the occasion. The Secretary was instructed to advertise an invitation to all Societies and trade organisations to send delegates to the next meeting, on Sept. 17, when tbe appointment of sub-Committees and the choice of a Bite for the demonstration will "be tho business of the evening.
WORE AND WAGES.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7270, 16 September 1891, Page 4
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