CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1650, 6 January 1914, Page 7

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

SITTINGS NEXT WEEK.

Tho Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. P. Hiilly) will be engaged in hearing two disputes in Wellington next week. On Monday next the Wellington' Manufacturing Jowellors', Watch and Clock Makers' and Kindred Trades' Industrial "Union of Workers, which is desirous of securing .an inaugural award from tho Arbitration Court, will submit their grievances and 'demands. These' includo a minimum wage for journeymen engaged as gold or silver smiths, etc., of £3 10s. per week, with £4'minimum for journeymen engaged exclusively at chasing,- engraving, mounting and setting, enamelling, (lie-sinking, and tool making. Th<S usual preference clause,, terms of engagement, and apprenticeship agreement have • also been inserted in the demands. Sixteen Wellington firms have been cited as parties to thp dispute. Tho applicants have nominated as assessors Messrs. James lVMoir, Tlios. Gamble, and James A. Bell, all working jewellers. The dispute will bo hoard at 10.30 a.m. on Monday in tho Commissioner's Chambers, To Are Post Office, and the scope will be limited to employers carrying on business in the city, or within, a radius of 15 miles of tho Post Oflico.

On the following day, at 10.30 a.m., is set down the hearing of the dispute which has arisen between the Wellington Metal Workers' Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers and the employers, of whom ten aro cited. , The demands made include a forty-four hours' week, with, special provision for "dirt" money on sliips and ashore ; night shifts ; employment , of boys and youths; suburban and country work; preference, etc. A minimum ivnga of Is. 4UI. per hour is asked, and in special cases Is. 5t1., and hirnacemen Is. od. The applicants have nominated Messrs. A. 801 l and A. Murray (metal workers' assistants), and E. Kennedy (union secretary), as assessors. The dispute of tho Merchant Service Guild is set down for hearing on January 14. but probably an application will 'be' made to have this caso adjourned. Before the end of tho present month tho boilermakers , tlir.pute will bo heard at Wellington, Napier, and Wanganui.