THE COST OF LIVING

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 5

THE COST OF LIVING

0 PLUMBERS WANT NEW AWARD. Claims for a new award have been filed by tho Wellington Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Union. Following are the principal demands:— Hours: From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday inclusive, with ail hour for luncheon, reducible by agreement to half-an-hour from May to August, so that work may cease at 4.30 p.n> Overtime: Double rates, with Is. Od. meal allowance, if overtime is worked after 6.30 p.m. The usual holidays are specified. Wages: Plumber or gasfitter. 2s. Od. an hour; all swinging 6tage and ladder work over 30ft. from the ground, Is. a day extra; dirty worn (including repairing hot-water service at boiler, or between boiler and cylinder, or clearing drains). Ik .b day extra; work done wliero heat exceeds 120 degrees Fahrenheit, double ruling rates. No worker shall be i compelled to work in any place where tho temperature has been raised about 140 degrees. i Suburban work is defined as work out- • side a radius of H miles from the em- : ploycr's place of business. Provided the ; worker docs not reside within olio mile of the work, ho is to bo allowed travel* ■ ling time and conveyance charges. For i bicycles used in tho employer's servico, i an allowance of Id. per mile shall bo \ paid. For country work a lodging allow- ( anco of ss. per day for six days in tho ( week is sought. Workers carrying mater- j ials or tool-kits to or from job 3 outside j working hours shall be paid at tho rata t of time and a half. Apprentices' wages: First year, 15s. per week; second year, <■ ,21; third year, il 10s.: fourth year, £?,- ] fifth year, '£2 10s.; sixth year, ,£8 ss. i Where practicable, witMn the scope of j the award, it shall bo compulsory upon n employers to allow apprentices two half- ] days of labour pc-r week in the first j three yearn of their apprenticeship to attend the Technical School '"or instruc- j tion, and it shall be compulsory on up- f prentices to attend tho school. _ <1 Assessors nominated by the union aret Messrs. A. Barras. J. Hamilton, IT. j, Thompson. The dispute is set down for 0 hearing by Hio Conciliation Council at j, Wellington on March 15; Palmerston, ;l March IB: Wunganui, March 17; Napi».r, 0 March til. s