MILKMEN'S DEMANDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1982, 12 February 1914, Page 4

MILKMEN'S DEMANDS.

NEW AWARD SOVCHT. W.e.lliijgtoi'i mjlk vendors met last evening aivd. drew Up coAivter-propo'sMs to the claims .recently submitted by t : |!.circn)p:!oyceslnsee);ing a. new aWai'tk Th/e M'eliiii.gtßii LiceiisetT Milk Veiidbit' Association' lias obtaiied legal .advice that it .caiinot b:6 eited, as an assocj.atioit, under the Arln'tratiou Act, and thai the-'Employees' union .niiist s'ito employers individually. The disputo will ooiivb before thp Conciliation 'Com- . nussioner oh Ee.bruaiw 1.7,. 'FollOWi'itg are the in.o.re important items of the union's ciiiiir.s, irifh the ■employers' counter-proposals jet against tlicjji'.-" ■ Hours of labour not oyier of) hours per Week of seven days; to-be worked a:s foll<nvai—QH Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, .Fridays, and Saturdays, ei'iiht hours per day; on Wednesdays and htindays, tj-ve hours shall bo wof'ked.— The employers liavo added: "Except Stablemen and foremen, whoso hours filial), be* 82 per week." Hour of "cotiinieiicing work and delivery of milk shall mi, bo earlier than 4 a.iii. —For "earlier 1 ' in the last tiiio the employers have ■BUbsUtu.'tc.d "later.''' Workers employed as ,tloo'r.iiieli, ea.iir Washers., ■ sta'blohieii, miJ:k.-cai;tci;B, and .all other ■w.qtkmjs' employed iii tlve : livery and distributibji «f milk sliall be paid not less than d£3 per week..—Em T 'ployW's- "Wofketß employed ■ as iloo;rmcii,''st.ab'le;nie.i.t, and'imlk-carUsjjs ; s'liall b'e paid'iiot less'tha.n'S'S jfjk' jiey ; week;;, ean-waslie.rs and :gone'rai hands, £2 ss, per.weeki" ■Overtime, s'lihil be paid for.all: -work doiio oh'tsicl'o the .ordinary workings, at tho follpwiiig ''..and 8 mi for tho first two. hc.Urs .and do'U'bte ■ ; tim■e■tl.l.e'rc!i'ff•■er l .^■E!h.p'loy.e:rs■ , proposal i "Ovirtimp «Ijcill. paid For all. work d'ono cm'f*ido the otdiiiary wor-Uviig hours : at tho. following, rates aivd .a. quarter.for the' -flitti? two -hours and ■double'time'thereafter, except that in case bf iriin delays, etc." Tho .-employers agree to preference to members .pf.tlm union, but dissent from tlie demaiid that employers must ho ■members of the M'ilk ¥c^.do'rs■ , AsMicia* tioii, ' ■