CONCILIATION BOARD.
THE PRINTERS' MACHINISTS' DISPUTE. • «__ (Per United Prew Association.) WELLINGTON,- July 22. The recommendation of the Conciliation -Board regarding -the printing machinists', case are, that all places other than Wellington, Napier, and Wanganui be classed as country officesTln the three towns named letterpress journeymen machinists 'to get the minimum wage of £2 18s, and lithographic machinists £3 per week, of 45 hours, and in country offices £2 10s and the same hours;, country office arrangements as to overtime and holidays to remain as at present, but -in the three principal towns nine holidays, including Easter Saturday. . Country offices to arrange how the hours shall be worked, and country .employers to arrange with their men as to the nnmber of machines; the proportion of apprentices . to be one boy to three men, all apprentices to ,be indentured for six years, and in the three' towns named th.ey shall start at 7s 6d per week, with a rise of , 2s 6d every six months. The settlement to hold good for two years. . The, city employers intimated that they did, not intend to place the dis- : pute before the Arbitration Court.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10397, 22 July 1901, Page 2
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189CONCILIATION BOARD. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10397, 22 July 1901, Page 2
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