TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 446, 11 December 1930, Page 7

TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD

QUESTION OF MULTIPLIER. COURT GIVES A RULING. [Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. The Court of Arbitration was recently asked to interpret the Dominion Typographers’ Award. The question asked was: “In the case of 6 point and 7 point type, is the multiplier to be used the number of en quads per line or the average number of actual letter matrices and spacebands per line?’’ “Tho Court may not have fully understood the technical terms used in Clause 17 (D) but its intention is clear from the nicmorrndum, and that intention was to provide for payment in ratio to the amount of work performed,’’ stated his Honour, Mr Justice Frazer. “The memorandum is not strictly a part of the award, but it serves to explain what was in the mind of the Court. The Court now understands that the en quad matrices in use on a machine may have any relation to the face of the type used. Tt formerly was under the impression tha T an on quad bore a definite relation to the face of the type in use and could be treated for practical purposes as a letter of the average size of that type. If necessary, to remove any ambiguity in Clause 17 (D), the Court will amend the clause to harmonise with the inten tion expressed in the memorandum. The correct method of ascertaining the multiplier for 6 point and 7 point type is to take the a-erage number of actual letter matrices ami space bands per line.

“Air Monteith does not agree with the foregoing and was not in agreement with the majority when the award was made. He is of opinion that en quads cannot be regarded as the same thing as letter matrices.* ’