BREWERY WORKERS' DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2212, 27 July 1914, Page 6

BREWERY WORKERS' DISPUTE

SETTLED BY CONCILIATION. The Wellington Brewery Employees' dispute was settled in the Council of Conciliation on Saturday morning, except that the question of the period for which the award should continue is to be left to the Arbitration Court to decide.' The reason given for this is the uncertainty as 'to what will happen to the Licensing Bill. The award will take effect from August 1. The agreement . gives tho workers' slightly improved conditions upon those prevailing in other centres. In wages the men asked for an,all-round increase of ss. per week, tho. rate demanded for brewory and malthouse labourers being £2 15Si per week: Tho rates conceded for those engaged in bottling stores are £2 10s. per week, as compared with the prevailing rates of from £2 ss. to £2 10s. per week, and for brewery and malthouse labourers £2 12s. Gd. per week, as against the present rate of £2 10s. Tho hours of work have not been interfered with, and will remain as at present. Overtime, however, is to bo paid 1 at the rate of time and a quarter after 45 hours, as compared with no extra rate, under existing conditions. The wages fixed for youtlis run from 20s. to 355. per week. ENGINEERS' DEMANDS. At a sitting of the Council of Conciliation, concerning the Engineers' demands, on Friday evening, it was'agreed to recommend that those employers cited whose businesses were not substantially concerned in the engineering industry, should be struck off, and as a result-their names will not appear upon the list again. It was decided also that as similar disputes existed in other parts of the Dominion and no agreement had been arrived at in any of them, the council could not see its way to make any suggestions in the way of settlement. ' I The dispute will now go before the I Court tit Arbitration. ;