PLASTERERS' WAGES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1735, 28 April 1913, Page 4

PLASTERERS' WAGES

4 REMARKABLE POSITION IN DUNEDIN. (By Telegraph,—Press Association.) Dunedin, April 27. It is reported that an extraordinary position has arisen in the lccal plasterers' trade, and that «v deadlock is threatened. At a conferenco held yostorday between tho master plasterers and master builders, it was 'oportod (hnt rocontly ail advertisement had appeared in the local nowspapors io tho effect that plustoren were available .at lis. ]>er day. Tho advertisement, it is said, was signed by the secretary of the Plasterers' Employes' Union. Tlio plasterers' award defines tho wages of journeymen at 12s. 11 "day, and it Seemed extnio.'diiuiry In (lie meeting in question that this notice should havo appeared, and was interpreted ns being really tantamount to a demand for an increase in wages without adopting tho usual procedure. 111 tho opinion of speakers, tho position amounts to a strike, as several men aro reported to havo left their jobs by refusing (o work at award rates.

Tlio meeting also doomed it extraordinary that suflli an action should lmvo happened, seeing that the award is of recent ihlto, and that the present condition of the trado did not, in. iiie opinion of the conference, warrant such action: oi. behalf cf tho union.