ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 October 1908, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

' ~. —- i: HAWKE'S BAY FREEZING WORKS , i ; . DISPUTE. v : summary-Bp new award. The Court of Arbitration filed its 'award with respect to the between the employees at the Hawke's Bay Freezing .Works, and the employers yesterday. It will come-into force on November 2, 1908, and remain in.force for.two years. Following/are : tho'principal-, provisions:— Escopt^in<&«> of.men employed on picce- Avork-and-in-other specified cases, the working hours shall bo eight per day of 24 hours; and overtime is to bo paid for at tho rate of timp,, and a-quarter. The minimum'rates'of wages shall be:—Boners, Is. 3d. hour; cooling, floor and out-house hands and:"generat:"labourers not otherwise specified, per hour; meat .classers, Is. 2d.; pullers (fellmorigory)', 4s. 6d. per 100 1 skins all- through the season; painters, flashers, and wool-workers, Is. per hour; peltclassers, Is. 3d. per hour; freezing chamber hands:- workers .employed in and about the freezing chamber and in- loading wagons, 6tc., Is. 3d. per hour. Manure department: all hands, Is. per hour. Storeman, £2 15s. l>er week-; first hand, £1 10s.; other hands, til"ss.''; tinsmith,^'"cutting, etc., lib. tins,.4d.. per ; hundred j'>.2lb., : -6d.; 31b., Gd.; 61b.,, 7d. Makinglib. tin'sj :; 2s; 4d. per hundred; 21b. 2s'. 6d. ;;31b".J 3sr'3d'.";!6lb., 3s. Bd. Topping, 'ctc.,''llb'.'>tins,''ls. Cdrper hundred; 21b., Is. sd. j''3lb., 2s. 1(1.; 61b., 2s. Id. • I'reserving. department: First assistant, Is. 2d, .por hour.; other-, hands,. 11 Jd. per hour. Night-,.watchman, 75., Gd. per night of- 12' hours, without extra pay for Sundays and ; holidays, and with two weeks' leave per annum on full pay. Tho wages of any nightwatchman is.beiiig paid more than these wages' tiro ; not" ttf ho rcduced. Second enginobr, £4 : -pe'r-woel;3rd engineer, £3 10s.; ongineers ■ te work -seven days per week if required without" extfa payment and bo allowed: two weoks- leave per annum on full pay. Firemen-,'Bs, -'porsday of eight hours; greasers, iHJd. per hour. 4s. :,3d., per/hour; fitter's assistant, Is. Ojd-,; blacksmith, Is. 3d.; his assistant, ls.' OJd'.'; general labourers, lljd.; carpenters and coopers, Is. 3d. per hour; painters, Is. 3d.; carpenters and shunters, 48s. per week, a week's work to consist of 48 hours, cxclusiv6 v 'of , tKe'. time''"occupied in the necessary attendance' to ho'rses; /: etc.; general labourers, . riot'otherwiso specified, IOJd. per hour; cook, • £2.105. :per ; week,', ahd ono week's leave of 1 absence on full.-pay per annum. Boys and youths;' from 15s.- to-i3os. per week, accord-, ing•:to.: age,.-:, usual holidays to bo observed, .but may agree with . the union to substitute any other day as a ; holiday. Work on Christmas Day, ; and Good Friday to be paid for at double ; rates." r ; Tho . general conditions provide gloves i •are to -be provided for men whose duties necessitate'.the uso of them. Spells of reas- ■ onablo'timc shall, b.o allowed men who aro in a heated condition to cool before entering the freezing chambers,'and no deduction is to bo. mado from the wages for such spells. No longer than .five hours shall bo worked' between meals. Subject to tho provisions of the award'tho employers shall retain full power to manage' alid control their business, ami to mako'reasonable rules relating to its management. . Preference of employment to be given to members of tho union. Any worker, .who considers himself incapable of earning tho minimum wage may bo paid at. , a lower wagesucli as may be'agreed upon 'after duo notice to tho union. The union shall do al) in its power to prevent any strike by any of' the workers affected by tho award, and if any strike occurs in which members of the union take part, it shall bo regarded as prima facio evidence that tho union has committed, a breach of its dutv.