BEHIND THE SCENES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18237, 22 November 1924, Page 4

BEHIND THE SCENES.

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TINSMITHS' DISPUTE. COMPLETE AGREEMENT REACHED. A complete agreement was reached at tho Counciliation Council between, employers xnd employees yesterday in the matter of the tinsmiths' .and sheet metal workers' claim for ■& new award. Tie dispute was heard bn.fore the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr W. H. Hagger. The Union's assessors were Messra F. Stephen, A. Halmshaw,_H. Gunns and G. T. Thurston, and the employers' assessors were Messrs W. H. Harris, H. O. Oakley, F. T. Boyce and W. C. Prime. The Union asked for a forty-hour week on five days a week, with a quarter of an hour in each four hours for smoking. In the alternative of the quarter hour, the Union asked that the men be allowed to smoke while working. Overtime was asked for at tho rate of time arid a 'half for the first two hours and thereafter at double time. For work done on New Year's Day, January 2nd, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzasc Day, King's Birthday, -Labour Day, Christmas Day. and Boxing Day, double time Was-asked. The Union.also asked that notice of tho Christmas holidays should be posted in a conspicuous place at least three days before the holidays commenced. Six days' holiday on full pay wa3 asked for annually and that workers commencing between " 6 a.m. and the ordinary time for commencing work bo paid at the rate • of time and a half until the ordinary hour for commencing work. The Union asked that .panel beaters, tinsmiths, coppersmiths, sheet metal workers, galvanised and canister workers be included, piecework not to be permitted. The rates of wages asked for were 2s 9d an hour for all workers of the trade except canister workers, for whom 2s 6d. an hour was asked, the wages to be paid weekly. The proportion of apprentices was eet down a3 one to every two journeymen. Access td the workshops was asked for tho Union secretary. The employers' counter-proposals comprised the present award. Exemption was granted to the Christchurch Gas, Coal and Coke Company, as only one man employed by them was oonj cerned in the dispute and his work did not compete with other firms. After a discussion over terms, which lasted until the afternoon! a complete agreement was reached, the new award being based largely on the one at present in operation. The hours of work were fixed at 44 a week, and workers required to work overtime will'be'-granted Is Gd tea money. The new scale. of wages for journeymen, coppersmiths, sheet metal workerß, tinsmiths, and galvanisers will be 2s 2d an hour, as against 2s ljd as at present. Improvers will receive 2s OJd an hour. The new award will came into force on Friday, November 28th. and will continue I in operation until June 30th, 1926.