INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 12

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE.

'(By Telegraph—Press Association,); •'.• ; ■ Auckland, July. 22. -.•iAn important industrial dispute was be-; fore- tho .Arbitration CourtV to-day—that between the Auckland Builders!; Coiltractors', • and General Labourers' Union and some' 300 employers/ including all tho local bodies. ■ .i ~ ..V . I'he union,: in its. demands, . asked for a 47-hour. week at the following. minimum rates i. of payßricklayers, V masons, and; plasterers' labourers, Is. 3d. per hour; labourers engaged in scaffolding construction, Ig. 4d.; other labourers, Is.; 3d. per hour,; men. engaged ; in' laying' pipes and making pipo joints : who require to have a liconso, Is. 4d.'per .-hour on new work,' Is. Gd. per hour, on old work; tunnel and timber men, lis; per shift; .all other workors. employed underground, 10s. per shift; quarry workers, 10s. per dpy ;• general labourtrs'not' specified,' 9s'.- per day; road-makers, Is. 3d. per'hour; yard, store, and lime-shed men, for permanent hands, £2 10s. per week, and' for casuals, Is. ljd, \per 7 : hour ;• foundry labourers, furnacemon, and dressers, 9s. Cel. por* day; other labourers, 'Bs. 4d.- per day. Overtime was asked for at-tho rato of. time and a quarter for tho first two hours, ■ and timo and a half afterwards, W"ith payment at tho rato of doubl'o timo for all work performed on holidays. V'.''- ' After lengthy argument,, decision was deferred. '. 1 .