LABOR DISPUTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 269, 22 November 1901, Page 3

LABOR DISPUTES.

TWO AWAKDS.

[By Telegraph— Press Association.] Wellington, last night.

Awards in two industrials disputes were delivered by the Arbitration Court this

morning. In the wharf laborers' case the Court fixed the ordinary working hours from S a.in. to 5 p.m., exclusive of meal hour, excepting Saturday, when the hours shall be S a.in. to 4 p.m., ail other time to be classed as overtime. The minimum rates are set down as follows :—Stevedore and general cargo work, exclusive of work , done for harbor boards, ordinary time Is 3d, i overtime 2s/ Harbor board work, ordinary time, Is 2d, overtime Is lOd. Discharging coal—Men employed as winchmen, plank* men, bull-rope men, and tippers, ordinary time Is 3d, overtime 2s ; men shovelling in holds of ships and trucks, ordinary time Is 6d, overtime 2s 3d. Trimmers in ships’ bunkers on home-going atid foreign steamers, ordinary time Is 3d, overtime 2s : inter-colonial and coastal steamers, ' ordinary time Is 6d, overtime 2s 6d. Rates for carrying coal —Ordinary time 2s, overtime 3s. Overhauling work on ships—Ordinary time Is 3d, overtime 2s. Carrying and stowing work in freezing chambers aboard ship Ordinary time, Is Gd, overtime 2s 6d ; in cool chambers, ordinary time Is 3d, overtime 2s. The award of the Court in the tailoresses’ case gives first-class coat, vest, and trouser hands XI 10s per week ; secondclass coat hands XT 7s 6d; second-class vest and trouser hands, XT 5s ; third-class coat hands, XT 5s a week for the first six months after the completion of apprenticeship, and XI 6s during the next six . months, after which they become secondclass hands. Third-class vest and trouser | hands, for the first six months after comI pletion of apprenticeship XI Is per week, for next six months XI 2s per week, and for next six months XI os, after which they become second-class hands. Firstclass machinists, XT 10s per week ; second-class machinists, XI 5s per week. The number of apprentices is to be limited to one to four, or a fraction of the first four. Operatives’ apprentices are to be paid as follows : For apprentices to coat making, 5s per week during the first four months, with a quarterly rise of 2s 6d per woek afterwards. Apprentices to vest and trouser making receive 5s per week for the first four months, with a similar increase during the first year, after which the wage shall be increased by a further payment of 2s 6d per week at the end of each succeeding period of six months until the end of apprenticeship