ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 152, 22 March 1919, Page 11

ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS

J. & ■ ■ • . ; DISTRICT J'IJKNLTKiiB TRADE. • Tlie award of tile Arbilrntion Court ift the . tnilcd Finniture Trade was iiii'd .yesterday. The .old award is amended so that the minimum wage to ho paid In. journeymen cabinetmakers, upholsterers, chair.' and frame-makers,'' machinists, wood carvers, turners, awl polishers shall be.ls. 7.td. per hour, and tor picture frame makers and wire mattress makers .Is. (id... per. hour, labourers at. limber stacking, i'iirni•turc packing, wt other unskilled work arc to be paid Is.'id. per. hour. In 4iddit.on lc the wages all workers a re.-to receive a bonus of 2Jd. per hour. Apprentices, fe-, male workers, and helpers arc to receivo in addition to their wages-a bonus, fit' 10 per cent. The amended award comes into force on March ,3i. AJ£ATiGATfrAT-ET) SOCHJT.Y OF ENGIN- .. . . KI'KS.,. .' ' j The. Wellington branch of the Amalga: mated Koeiety of Engineers (including brass finishers, coppersmiths, .motor. mechanics, and tinplate and slieet methl workers) receive in addition to their v wage a war bonus of l}d. per iiuur. 'lhe amended award conies into force hsfrbni February. 15. . The following memorandum was attached to the latter award:; V'l'lio parties arrived at an agreement on the subject,: but at the v hearing before tlie Court llie union of workers sought to withdraw its application, and to secede from an arrangement - made, ■ on dlio ground that it was'proposed to.nakea, different application in the southern centres.- and it was ultimately arranged that this order should be made giving effect to the agreement arrived- at by the parties, hut without prejudice to any application that-the workers' union might see. lit to make at the next sitting of the Court in Wellington." .