CONCILIATION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 5

CONCILIATION

CASES FILED FOE BEARING

THE STONEMASONS. Yesterday the Wellington Stonemasons Union filer] an application for bearing by tho Conciliation Contwil of a dispute with the Wellington Builders' aiid Contractors' Association, Messrs. ndsford, s j atid Hardie (eoiit.ractors for tho creciwa of Parliament Buildings), and tie Moaumental Masons of Wellington. The chief demands raade in the general statement afe as follow:— »11 ages.—All journeyjiiea stone-masons f b ®, P al( l not less tbaji Is. 3d, per pour, all wages to be paid wecklv, and m employers' time. Overtime shall be paid for at the rat© of time-and a half tor tho first fouf hours, and double time thereafter. .Country sha.U mean work which necessitates the worker. lodging elsewhere than at his usual place of rewnS- C !i n u orkc - r - s . c fsaaeti en country woik shall be paid sfewpence per limir i addition to tho wages iicrainbefiiro prescribed, and employers shall pay tlicir tares once eaflh way, and for iiiile occupied in travelling a .t not lass than tlie ordinary rate: Provided tkt fiot more than an ordinary day's pay shall do paid for time spent k travelling in any one day. Employers may agree with workers employed on count rv workthat such workers shall work at ordinary F'1 S , ('ncludmg the said threepence per scribed 11 excess boins herei'iv pre-

Ro Monumental Masons.—This award snal not apply to workers permanently employed by monumental masoiis, but any worker casually, employed to do mason s work by a Wonifmenjtal fuason shall bo paid not less than, iho waces provided. Tools.—All tools to ho provided., <ssC ?i A Dlas i rs squares, oii all stono other than saiadstone md Mestono. ' Imported Stone.—AH stone to b® set. iintler the jurisdictiois of this award (other than-cemetery work) and dressed outside the districts affected by 'this award, the wages paid niTist not be less than this award rate. Scope of Award.—This award shall apply to employers carrying on husiness m tho City of Wellington, or with-JiV-p C t? miles of thfi Chief Post Office in tho City of Weilington. n Tho Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. in on a r) llas •appointed: June 24. at dispute' m ias me ' Irar:i; £ tliJEj

buildiug trade. DEMANDS OF THE LABOURERS. The Building Trades Labpurers Union filed 'an appiieatioa yesterday for the hearing of' a dilate/between themselves and tlie Wellington Builders' and Contractors' Union and til .private firms of cmjlovers. 'fi» f;6l- ' lowing are thb details of" the cbiof ds- • niands:— •Rates of Work.—(a), Labourers cmployed m connection with erection, alteration scaflolding, or demolition of any building or in excavating or preparing ground for same sit,ill ho paid not less than Is. Jd. per liaur. (b) Six hours shall constitute a day'& work w-iien workers are working in wet places or foul air, and shall bo paid fi>r as if tile workers had worked eight, iistirs. A "wet place" shall mean a place wliere workers are standing in water three inches or more in depth, or where water other than rain water is dripping on mem. Ovortime shall bo paid for at the rate of timo and a quarter for the first two hours, time and a half thereafter np to 10 p.m., and double time between i 5 p.m. and the ordinary titeo .fot com* nicncing work next morning if worked continuously, (b) Workmen required to commence between 6 a.m. and the ordinary time shall bo paid at the rate of time and a quarter for such tir.m. (ci For work done on Sunday, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, or Boxing Itej double timo shall be paid. "Suburban work" in the case of employers carrying on business in the city of Wellington means work performed outside a radius of two miles i'rftm the Te Aro Post Office, and in ease of trtlter employers coming within the afope of this award means work -performed siutside a radius of two miles from tlie'employer's place of .business. The worker shall he at tho place of work at the timo appointed for commencement, bat should such place be beyond the twomiles limit employers shall either pay workers at the rate of tliree miles ail hour for time occupied, by tlieiii in travelling by the nearest road teed by fcot passengers to and from sudi work in excess of tho two miles, or shall pay their tramway or other fafe-s going and returning.

If city employers elcct fe> pay tram, way fares, such fares shall bo pais! to and from the work, comuieiiciitE awl finishing at the tramway sectian csitl nearest to the To Aro Pcsfc Office ami most convenient to the work. For country work, the employer shall pay the faro both ways, and a proper ailowaiico shall be made for meals. \Yhru tho worker is employed at such a distance, that'he is unable to return to his horns at night, boai'd nnd lodginssliaH !>e provided at the employer's expense. The proportion of youths shall flat t>o more tnan one to every fire mfrii fuily employed. Preference.—lf any employer shall engage any worker not a member of the union, and who within one week after his engagement shall not become a member of tho union, the employer shall dismiss such worker from his service if requested to do so by the union i provided there is then a member of the nnion equally qualified to perform tfee work and willing to undertake it. Scope of Award.—This ' award slial! apply' only to employers carrying on business witliin a radius of twenty-Ive miles from.the Cliief Post Office in the City of Wellington. The Conciliation Commissmner (Jlr. P. Hally) has fixed June S3, at 10,30 a.m., at the Commissoincr's effice, Te Aro Post Office, for the hearing of the dispute.