FLAXMILL EMPLOYEES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 9

FLAXMILL EMPLOYEES

NEW AWARD ASKfiD. The' Manawatu flaxmill employees,, through .their union, have filed Ail 'application for a. ne# iadflStfini awa'ra : . A forty-four-hour week is nsked for,, ail work and overtime'to cease list later than 1 p.m. on Saturdays Tho rato of wages asked for constitutes an in-' crease on those now prevailing. . For ■flax-cutting the. nihmftsjin rate is feed at ss. 6d. a ton, whilst piece-work paddocking, which includes all work from taking the fibre of!' the poles to stacking it-in .the scutcii:n'S-sW, is fixed at £1 12s. 6:1. n ton for tho winter liionths and £1 10s. for tjio summer months Scutching is given a minimum of £1 10s. a ton. Where board is provided for workors the food sha!i be; Riifliorent in quantity and of good sjriality, and the charge therefor, whether bofcfd shall be provided directly by th« employer nr by any person under contract wiiVhtni, shall not exceed 1 .">s. per week, Proferoncn for unionists is provided for, and no time is to bo deducted, from any worker by reason of breakdown nfuna* clflnery, or other cause, provided the employees shall be.remri-rftd to i esu.me work on such d/iy* Tho Conciliation. Commissioner (Mr. P. Hally) has appoiptci .l-,ilv 2." as the date _ for hearing, the dispute by the Conciliation Council, at " l , a!rr.erst'.,n North..