CABLE TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 308, 22 September 1920, Page 7

CABLE TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES

ARBITRATION COURT AWARD. An award for employees of the KelburnKarcri Tramway Company lias been made by tho Arbitration Cc.nrt. There are only it few persons in tho employ of the company. Mr. Justice Stringer, in announcing the Court's decision, said that tho (>nly questions submitted to the Court in this dispute wore' aa to wages and payment for Sunday ..work, and these had been Battled byUlie Court in accordance with the proposals made by the' company, whicli he considered were fair and reasonable. The contsntion made bv the unipn representatives that the workers) on the Kelburn tramway should bo placed (as to wages and conditions) upon a similar footing to those ergaged on tho various municipal tramways systems in the Dominion, appeared to be quite untenable. The Kelburn tramway was not comparablo with 'my other system, requiring no skill-on tho 'art of the workers employed, and involving them in no such risk and responsibility as was inherent in ordinary tramway traffic.

The scale of wages was fixed as follows: —Gripmen, Is. 9d. per hour for tho first year of service, thereafter Is. lOd. per hour; ropemen, la. lOd. per hour for the first year of service, thereafter Is. IOJd. per hour; ticket elippers, lid. per hour for the first and second year of service, thereafter lljcl. an hour; rush-hour clippers, ss. fid. per day. Sunday work will be paid for at the rate of time and a half.