WORK AND WAGES.

Star (Christchurch), 20 December 1907, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

* — . THE BUTCHERS' UNIQN. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 20. The award in the dispute, of the Wellington Butchers' Union has been received by the clerk of awards. It provides for a fifty-six-hour week, to be regulated in . advance by each employer, b.ut a worker may be employed at any hour to supply shipping in Wellington or Napier. The minimum weekly wages to be paid by employers carrying on business in a fifteen-mile radius of Wellington Post Office shall be: For first shopman, £3 10s. ; second shopman, £3; first small-goods, man, £3 10§; all other workers.,, shop and cart hands, £2 11s; riders out, twenty-one years or over, £1 12s 6d. Outside the radius mentioned the rates 9h.a1l be: First shopman, £3; second shopman, £2 10s; first small-goods man, £3; other worker*, £2 10s; riders. out* £1 12s 6d. If board is provided by the employer, the above wages shall be 10s per week le.ssv Casual workers to be paid Is 3d perhour, with a minimum, of six hours' 1 employment, such workers to be provided with board by the employer or paid Is 6d per day in lieu thereof. Boys wages shall be: Under sixteen, 17s 6d per week ; sixteen to seventeen, £1 ; seventeen to eighteen, 255 ; eighteen to twenty-one, 30s. If board is supplied, the wages shall be reduced by 7s 6d per week. The proportion of boys to men employed to«'be one to every three men or fraction of three. Each employee shall have meat allowed him, not to exceed the value of 6a per week, or at the option of the employer 5s in cash in lieu thereof. This provision will not apply to casual men and boys, nor to j workers in pork butcheries. Casual | boy labour is not permitted. The usual provisions for holidays and preference to unionists are made, and the award will come into force on January 20, 1908, and continue in fore© until March 31, 1910. THE DENNISTON TROUBLE. [Per Press Association.] WESTPOkT, December 20. The present position at Denniston is that the management has called upon the Union to observe the provisions of the Court's award. The offers of compromise (that have been refused) are being now withdrawn. A simple arrangement regarding working hours has been mutually agreed upon at the Wostport Coal Company's . second collierj' at Granity. The men employed on the front shift will commence work at 8 a.m. and cease at 3 p.m. The back shift men will start at 4 p.m. and discontinue work at 11 p.m. Twenty minutes in each shift will be allowed as " crib " time.