CARPENTERS AND JOIRERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 371, 21 March 1902, Page 3

CARPENTERS AND JOIRERS.

t A meeting of carpenters and joiners will be field in Uie Wesley schoolroom . this evening, at 7.30, to officially open . a branch of the Union. Mr Tyson, of • Auckland, will officiate. Painters are invited. ARBITRATION AWARD. I For the information of those connected with the trade, we append herewith the arbitration award given in Auckland : Hours of Work. 1 That except as mentioned in clause 2 hereof, the recognised hours of work of journeymen carpenters and joiners shall be from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on every week day except Saturday (one hour to he allowed on each such day for dinner). On Saturday the hours of work shall be from 8 a.m. ~o noon. 2. That in factories in which thc J whole of the w ork performed by the journeymen carpenters and joiners em- ! ployed is performed in the factory of the employer, the recognised hours of work shall he from 7.30 a.m. vo 5 p.m on every week day except Saturday (one hour to he allowed each such day I for dinner). On Saturday the hours of work shall he from 7.30 a.m. to noon. 1 Minimum Wages. 1

3. That all j ourneymen carpenters aiul joiners (except as hereinafter mentioned) shall he paid not less tiian is | 3d per hour for any work done on any day (other than the days mentioned in paragraphs 9 and 10 hereof) during the recognised hours of work. 4. That journeymen carpenters and joiners employed in any factory in which the whole of the work performed by such carpenters and joiners employed 'in such factory is performed in the factory, and who are continuously employed save through their own default, for full time for every work day in any one week shall be paid not less than at the rate of £2 11s for every week’s work of 47 hours. Piece Work.

5. That any journeyman carpenter and joiner who may desire to work any factory*upon piecework may work in | such factory upon sucli terms and conditions as to pay and otherwise as shall be agreed upon in writing between such journeyman and tiie Chairman and secretary of the Union, or in default of such agreement, alter 24 hours notice in writing by such journeyman to the secretary of the Union, as shall be fixed by the Chairman of the Conciliation Board for the industrial district upon the application of such journeyman, after 24 hours notice in writing to the Secretary of the Union who shall if he so desire be heard by such Chairman. The number of men who shall be employed on piece work under this clause by any employ, er shall not' at any time exceed the proportion of one of such men to every three men to whom the ordinary rate of wages is paid under clause 4, Payment of Wages.

G. All wages shall be paid weekly either on the work or at the employers place of business, but wherever paid they shall be paid to the workmen not later thanlS minutes after* leaving off work for the week., Incompetent Workmen.

7. That any journeyman who may consider himself incapable of earning the minimum wage fixed for his employment under this award, may bo paid such less wa°o as from time to time be agreed upon in writing between such journeyman and the Chairman or Secretary of the Union, or in default of such agreement, after 24 hours notice in writing by such journeyman to tho Secretary of the Union, as shall be fixed by the Chairman of tho Conciliation Board for this Industrial District, after 24 hours’ notice in writing to tho Secretary of the Union, who shall if he so desire be heard by such Chairman upon such application. Any journeyman whose wages shall have been so fixed may work and may bo employed by any em ployer for such less wages for the period of six calendar months thereafter and after the expiration of the said six calendar months until his wages shall be again fixed in tho manner prescribed in this clause, after 14 days’ notice in writing shall havo been given to him by the Secretary of the Union requiring his wages to be again fixed under the provisions of this clause. Overtime. 8. All time worked beyond the recognised hours of labor as hereinbefore mentioned shall be considered overtime, and shall be paid for at the rate of time and a-quarter for time worked between the hours of 5 pan. and 8 p.m.; at the rate of time aud a half for time worked between the hours of 8 p.m. aud midnight; and at the rate of douole time between tho hours of midnight and the hours fixed under this award for commencing the ordinary day's work. 9. Work performed upon statutory holidays shall, subject to the provisions of clause 11 hereof, be paid for at the rate of time and a- juarter between 8 a.m. and 10 a.in.; time and a-lialf between 10 a.m. and midnight; aud double time between midnight and the hours fixed under this award for commencing work on an ordinary day. 10. “Statutory Holidays” shall mean the holidays prescribed under “The Factories Aot, 1901.” 11. Double time shall be paid for any work performed on Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day. Prohibition of Piece Work and Subletting Labor. 12. That except as provided in clause 5 hereof, and except in respect of stair building, no carpenter or joiner shall be paid by piece-work, nor shall any builder or employer sublet his work labor only. Suburban Work. 13. Work performed elsewhere than at the shop of the employer, and over two miles from the fire-bell station in Grey Street, in the city of Auckland, shall bo considered suburban work, and journeymen employed thereon shall be allowed and paid for the time reasonably occupied by them in walking to and from such work, or they shall be conveyed to and from such work at the eost of their employers ; but no journeymen residing more than two miles by the nearest con-

venieut mode of access for foot-passengers 1 from the place where the work is to be 1 performed shall bo ontit.ledto the allow- ' anco mentioned in this clause. 14. If any journeyman is required to use the ferry for the purpose of going to or returning from any place outside his omployov’s shop where the work is to be performed, his fares shall bo paid by the employer. Country Work. 15. Work performed at such a distance from the shop of the employer that the journeyman employed cannot return to tho shop of his employer or to his own place of abode on the same day shall be considered to bo country work. 16. Every journeyman engaged upon country work shall bo paid in addition to his ordinary wages pursuant to the provisions of this award a further sum of one shilling for each and every day while he is so employed, and his travelling expenses in going to and returning from such work shall also bo paid by his emplover. 17. Notwithstanding anything in this award contained, any employer and his workmen may agree that in respect of any specified country work tho hours of work shall be other than those hereinbefore prescribed without payment of overtime, but so that not less than the minimum wages per hour prescribed •n this award for ordinary work shall

bo paid to such workman. Tools, etc. 18. Whore work is performed elsewhere than at the place of business of an employer, he shall provide upon the premises whore the work is performed a properly secured place for the tools of the journeymen employed upon such work by him, and he shall aim provide all necessary sanitary conveniences for the use of his journeymen. 19. Every employer shall provide and keep a suitable grindstone for the use of his journeymen, and every- journeyman shall at all times keep his tools in proper order. 20. When men who have been employed for not less than four weeks are discharged, one hour shall be allowed them to put .their tools m order. ■ ■ i

Apprentices. 21. Noiimitation shall be put upon the number of apprentices. Apprentices may oc apprenticed to learn a particular branch or branches of the trade or to learn the trade generally. If to learn one branch only, the period of apprenticeship shall be four years. If to learn more than one branch, the period shall be live years. Apprentices taken after the fifth day of January, 1902, shall be legally indentured. Apprentices who are now in employment and whoso term of apprenticeship commenced prior to the date of this award may complete their period of apprenticeship without a deed of apprenticeship, but it shall be incumbent on the employer of any such apprentice with whom any such apprentice shall be so serving to" give notice in writing within one calendar month from the date of this award to the Secretary of the Union of the name of >uch apprentice and of the period when bis service began and when it is to end. Period of Probation. 22. Any employer before taking a youth is apprentice shall be entitled to employ lim for three months on probation. If it the end of such probation the employer ihall continue to employ such youth thon uch youth shall be legally apprenticed • inder the provisions of this award, and in 1 uch case the said period of three months < hall be reckoned as part of the period of ' pprenticesbip prescribed by this award. Wages for Apprentices. j!

23. The wages to be paid to apprentices shall be as follows :—During the first year of their apprenticeship not less than os. a week; during the second year, not less chan 10s. per week; during the third year, not less than 10s. per week; during the fourth year, not less than 20s per week ; and during the fifth year, not less than 255. per week. Preference.

24. If ami after the Union shall so amend its rules as to permit any person then employed in this industrial District in this trade and thereafter any other person now residing or who may hereafter reside in this Industrial District, who is a competent journeyman to become a member of the Union upon payment of an entrance fee not exceeding os., and of subsequent contributions whether weekly or not not exceeding Od. per week upon the written application of the person so desiring to join the Union without ballot or other election, and shall give notice of sucli amendment by advertisement in the New Zealand Herald and the .Evening Star newspapers published in Auckland, then and in such case aud thereafter employers shall employ members of the Umon in preference to non-members, provided that there are members of the Union equally qualified with non-members to perform the particular work required to bo done and ready and willing to undertake it.

So soon as the Union shall perform the conditions entitling the members preference under the foregoing clause and at all times thereafter the Union shall keep at the office of the Labor Bureau in the city of Auckland a book to be called “ The Employment Book ” of the Union, wherein snail be entered the names and exact addresses of all the members of the Union who are for the time being out of employment, and the names and addresses and occupations of every employer by whom such member shall have been

employed during the preceding nine calendar months. Immediately upon any such member obtaining employment a note thereof shall he entered in such book. The Executive of the Union shall use their best endeavor to verify the entries contained in such book, and the Union shall he answerable as for a breach of this award m case any entry therein shall he wilfully false to the knowledge of any officer of the Union, or in case the Executive officers of the Union shall not have used reasonable endeavors to verify the same. Each such hook shall be open to every employer without fee or charge at ail hours between 9 a.in. and o p.m. on every working day except Saturday, and on that day between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m, If tiie Union fail to keep such employment book in manner prescribed by this award then and in such case and so long as such failure shall continue the members of the Union shall ga\o no right to preference under tins award. ~ , 20. The Union shall also cause to he entered correctly in such hook the names and addresses of all men m re-, spect of whom a wage less than the minimum wage shall from tune to time he fixed under the provisions ot this award and the amount of such wage for which eacli such man snail be entitled to work. Preference to Employers Union. 27. Members of the Union when claiming preference of employment having regard to their place of residence and other circumstances and other conditions being equal give preference of service to members of the Employers Union, General.

28 Nothing in the foregoing clauses relating to preference of employment shall bo deemed to affect tho right of auy employer to continue to employ any person who may be in his employment at the time the Onion shall have so amended and given notice of such amendment of their rules but such employer may continue to employ such person notwithstanding such person may not elect or desire to become a member of the union. 29. Nor shall the provisions ot any ot the said clauses apply in any case where an employer shall apply' to the Officer in charge of tho Labour Bureau at Auckland between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon in any day to send to the chief place of business of such employer at a date and hour to be named by such employer a member of the Union, and no member of the Union able and ready and willing to undertake the work required to be done shall attend at such place of business at the hour named by such employer such hour not being earlier than 1 p.m. on the day such application is made. _ . 30. Until compliance by the Union with Clauses 24, 25, and 26 of this award employers may employ journeymen whether members of tho Union or not, but no employer shall discriminate against members of the Union, or in the dismissal or employment of journeymen, or in the conduct of his business do anything for tho purpose of directly or indirectly injuring the Union. 31. When members of the Union and non-members arc omployed together then there shall be no distinction between members and non-members, and both shall work together in harmony and under the same conditions, and shall receive equal p£ty for equal work. Existing Contracts. 82. Notwithstanding the provisions of Clauses 3 and 4 of this award journeymen may be employed, and may work for the

minimum rate of wages fixed by the award of the Court made in this District, dated the 17th day of duly, 1899, for the purpose of completing contracts by which any employer was bound on the Ist day of December, 1901, but any employer desiring to take advantage of this provision shall within fourteen days from the day of the day hereof give to the Secretary of the Worker’s Union, and also to the Secretary of the Employers’ Union, notice in writing of the contracts in respect of which he claims to be entitled to the benefit of thi.s provision stating the date of each such contract the name of the person with whom the same has been entered into, and the nature of the work and where the same is to be performed, and no employer shall be entitled to the benefit of this provision in respect of any contract of which he has not so given notice. Definition. lifi. The word “ journeyman ” or “ journeymen ” shall whenever used in this award mean a journeyman carpenter, or journeyman carpenter and joiner, or journeymen carpenters, or journeymen carpenters and joiners, as the ca3e may require, and shall not include any other journeyman or journeymen employed by an employer; and the word “employer” shall he deemed to mean and include any firm, partnership or company of employers. Limitation of Award.

84. The Award and the conditions thereof are limited to employers whose principal place of business is in the City of Auckland, or within a radius of 10 miles from the Chief Post Oflicc, Shortlond Street, Auckland. Term of Award. 32. This Award shall come into operation on Monday, the 13th day of January, 1902, and shall continue in force until the

13th day of January, 1904. In witness whereof the Seal of the Court hath been hereto put and affixed, and the President of the Court hath hereunto set his hand this 6th day of January, 1902. THEO. COOPER, J., President. Seal Northern Inddstriae District, N.Z.