CONCILIATION COUNCIL ,

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19034, 11 June 1924, Page 5

CONCILIATION COUNCIL ,

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 10. The Conciliation Court resumed re the Dominion Engineers’ dispute. It was intimated that the employees’ representatives were prepared to go on with discussing the employers’ claims. It was intimated that the employers were out after a Dominion award. After further discussion, the case was proceeded with. The employers’ claims provided for a 47-hour week. Eight and a-half hours had to be worked on five days of a week and four and a-half hours on Saturday. The wages of journeymen should be 2/- per hour, machinists on planing, slating shaping machines to receive l/10| per hour. Heat money at the rate of 2/- per hour extra was provided for. In their counter-claims, the union asked for a 40-hour week, to be worked on a five-days’ week. Under the wages heading, the union asked that the minimum rate of wages to be paid pattern-makers, gilters, turners, gunsmiths, blacksmiths, toolmakers, etc., should be £5 10s per week. After applications for exemption from the award had been dealt with, the sitting was adjourned until to-mor-row.