OUT FOR BETTER TERMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 7

OUT FOR BETTER TERMS.

a g WORKERS IN TIN. e The tinsmiths of Wellington are ao a tivejy organising with a view to securing better conditions of employment • and have retained the services of Sir W. C. Nootas organiser. The Tinsmiths Union points to the fact that its mem s " bers work 48 hours a week, whereai '? plumbers" and workers in other alliec trades work 45 to 47 hours per week ""I The union proposals embody a demani that working hours shall be' limited t< ' . 45 per week, and that >tbe only classe: g of workers recognised be journey ' men aud apprentices. - It is asked.tha' no boys shall be allowed to work b; id permit, and that "labour only" worl U- shall be prohibited. A wage for tin smiths of Is. sd. per hour (lis. 4d. pe: nl day) is demanded, as against 9s. nov paid. Another proposal is that tin three months probation time of appren tices shall be included in their tern ed of apprenticeship, instead of being omit ns ted," as sometimes now happens. . Ex id ception is .taken to .the non-paymen a of apprentices on holidays, and it i [ e . asked that they, shoilld bo paid in ful □d for all holidays! 'lVefcrence is demando ir . by the union for; its' members. The ol , er jects of the union will be explained a its a meeting, this evening, when promincn id- labourites will speak. The fifty-seventh anniversary oi SI John's Sunday School will be commcm< mt rated at tlie services to-morrow. Di nf i Gibb will preach morning and oveninj An afternoon service will be conducte 7° by Kev. James Aitken, iI.A., of Dun< M,' din. The church will bo decorated wit ' lU flowers and a band of children, assist* by the church choir, will lead the 6in| ing. ' : , Cole's Drapery Company insert in th issue several scatters of interest to Ihoi in search of bargains.' .. The Hut.t Park Committee invite tei ders for therifjht of grazing ccrtain po 383 tions of the Hutt Park for 12 months. aS Messrs) W. H. TurnbuU and Co. a verttee particulars of a well-appointi 1 a home, situated at Kelburne: Tho po; ! on tion of the property is described ns i ca " ideal one, closo to University and Par ive The firm notify ' intending purchaso for that cards to view and further partic lth lars can bo obtained from them, to .Sir W. S. Eobson, on becoming a Loi 'en of Appeal, takes the title of Baron Ko th© son. of Jesmond.