A FORTY-FOUR HOURS' WEEK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1445, 21 May 1912, Page 4

A FORTY-FOUR HOURS' WEEK.

« FOR GENERAL LABOURERS. Increased wages and improved conditions generally are sought by the Wellington General Labourers' Union in ;; claim which is being put forward as the basis of a new a word. The. union is asking fw a. Minimum of Is. I!d. per hour, as against Is. lid. provided for in the present award, and Bs. per dav for continuous employment. A. forty-four hours working week i« also sought—five days of eight hoars each and four hours on Saturday. Clause (e) of the hours of work reads: "Six hours shall constitute a day's work when men are working in wet places, or in foul air, ami shall bs paid for as if the worker had worked eight hours. A 'wet place' shall mean a place where a worker has to stand in not less than two inches of water, or where water, other than rain, is dripping on him." A minimum of Is. 4d. per hour is asked for those labourers employed in flio construction and demolition of scaffolds. Provision has been made in (he claims for orchnrdisla and gardeners' labourers at the same general minimum rate. A special mooting is to lv hold next h'rirt.iv" evening Tor the purpose of aflirming the dcirnbiliiy of taking (ho claim- before the Conciliation I'ouncil or Arbitration Court for settlement.