CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 9

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

HEARINGS RESUMED.

The Conciliation. Council, under the presidency of the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. P. Hally) resumed its sittings yesterday morning. The case was the application <f the recently-formed Wellington Bacon Factory Employees' Union for an industrial award. Assessors for the employers were Messrs. S. C. Baron, W. H. Atkins, and W. Walton, and for the union Messrs. ,F. Ellis, A. Hill, and A. House. Mr. W. A. W. Grenfel] appeared for the employers and Mr. E. Kennedy for the union.

The demands of tho men included a forty-four-hour week, with minimum rates of pay ranging up to)£s per week for head preservers. Assistant preservers were rated at Is. 6d. per hour, and all other workers at Is. 4d. per hour, and the other departments the minimum asked for was: Head ouror', £4 ; small goods, headman, £4; head packer, £4 per week. Assistants in each department ranged from Is. 6d. to Is. 4c!.-pet hour. It was further asked that the proportion of boys should not be more than one to every ten men employed.

Mr. Grenfell pointed out that Messrs. W. Dimock and 1 Co. were the only 'parties eited to the dispute, and urged that the hearing should not rcroceed until all the parties in the district had been joined. Mr. Kennedy said that it was the intention to get all the parfies in the district, but they wanted to move step by step. 1 " After argument in Committee . the hearing was adjourned till all the parties have been cited by the union.