FURNITURE TRADES DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 8

FURNITURE TRADES DISPUTE.

« : ~-Xi>■ V' : v, , ' '••, -. f ,'' - Clirlstohuroh, August 26 t':"'' l -:''v;A 'sitting., of/.the Commission' | t : ' ; -'-'-.> wos held.this 'inoriuig'jto'.agal'with'tlie'furni- r ■ ture trades dispute Mr J R 'lnggs (Coiiv:; .ciliation:- .Comnussioner)' presided.'" .-It was p;;jti?agreM:;ffiat:.^'.wages'rforvcaliinetT ! ■•:'--...'.'makei|i/ v carvers, _ .upliblsterersj : turners,., !; .' . /fpme-iriakers, polishers,.. and '.; machinists . y : : should be ls.;3d.''per hbur.pmattress-makers, . I"? / r,. ls. -OjJ.. per.vhour.; apprentices, having.'com- * pleted. their- term; and being cinployed : as im~ - c piovers to be paid Is per hour for the first fr'/.!-:-.-'year, i and : lb., por hour-for ia further f period, of twelve months. .In regdrd £o ap- > prentices, it was agreed that they should [ serye.for five.years,-three montlis!.trial to' be t -.s ' -given, beforo indenturing. ,/Apprentices to bo ' paid -ss;-: por week'■;for'«the- tirst-year/'.'the'' p> v-v-;;amount. rising to £1: os. per week by the fifth r ■' ■■:.•. o year. The proportion of - .apprentices was J fixed at one to eveiy three journeymen or E|'^;i:fractidn;:bf;three;w'T^^ [;-..- , .fixed at forty-four weekly,, with the exception IJi^pof: Tima-ru, the .hours there to lie forty-eight, ii. .It- was decided that; no "piecework ;be per-mitted,-and that ah employer should bo,at lib-. » / erty to employ boys at such wages as he saw »:-; .- fit for tie purpose-of stacking timber,'clean-' ing up workshops, general messages, etc k .. Provision..for - was' made, H And the principle of conditional preference 'to j! ••;•••.■. unionists was. affirmed.,:- •