LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1588, 4 November 1912, Page 3

LAW REPORTS.

ARBITRATION.' TYPOGRAPHICAL' AWARD. The last stage of the typographical dispute has been reached, as tho Court of Arbitration, has • given tho award, which was filed in Wellington on Saturday morning. In both the machine section and tho hand section, the Court has provided for two divisions: (1) Cities and towns having a population of over 2500 inhabitants; and (2) having a population of 2500, or less, tho populations being based on the census of 1911. Machine Work. In the machine Ejection, the week's work is to consist of 42 hours, the rates of pay for linotype and monotype operators to be £3 lis. on evening papers ill, the four large centres, and ■£! 2s. on morning papers. Day operators on other work than daily newspapers are to receive ,£3 10s. per week and night operators .£3 16s. per weelt. ' Other rates of pay provide for nionolino and simplex operators, and range from <£2 15s. to .63 12s. Stone-hands and bulk-linnds are to bo paid from <£3 ss, per iveek to 4'3 15s. Tho efficiency speed is set down as 7000 ens ■ per hour for linotype operators and 4500 ens per hour for monolino operators. Piecework rates raitgc from. 3d. to 3sdper 1000 ens for day operators, with onetenth extra rate for night operators, whilo there must be a guarantee of 30 hours' work per week for efficient men. . Overtime is to be paid for at time and a third, with time'and a half for Labour Day, and double rates for Christinas Day, New Year's Day, and Good Friday. . Six years' apprenticeship is provided for, with wages ranging from 10s. -per week to 40s. per week, and 2s. fid. per week additional when on machines. Otber - clauses provide for probationers, employment of female workers (at same rates as males), payment of call, payment for "all appearing" ' lines, engineer s work, etc. Hand Section. In the hand section, tho classification and general provisions are inuch tho same as in the machine section;.but the hours of work, rates of pay, overtime rates, and holiday rates vary. The weeks work is to consist of 48 hours, with wages ranging from £2 15s. per Week for day work in the second division to jS3.lo3._per week for night work in the first division, piecework Being paid for at Is. Id. per 1000 ens (day)* and Is. 2d. per 1000 ens. (night). Overtime and holiday rates range i.rom rate and a third to double rates. The award comes into December 2 next, and expires "On October 31, 1915. A memorandum attached to tlie_ award includes the following:—"The Workers' Association asked the Court to'.mako provision in tho award _ for readers. It might have been possible to provide for th'eni in the- four large cities, but the Court found it impossible to provide for them in other parts of tho Dominion. In j most printing offices in the country there is no regular reader employed. Reading is done sometimes by a compositor, sometimes by the employer, sometimes-by the reporters, and sometimes by a youth."