WORK AND WAGES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2083, 18 May 1907, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES

Tress Association —Copyright. RAND AIINEItS’ STRIKE. Received May 17, 11.27 p.m. LONDON. Alay 17. A serious strike disturbance occur red at Germ is ton, in the Langlaagtc deep mine.. Non-union men wen stoned by too strikers.

„ ress Association. AUCICf,AN D SLAUGHTERMEN. AUCKLAND, yesterday. Tin' a ‘ -cement between the 'Auckland lightermen and the employers as approved by the Arbitration Court, p ovides that slaughtermer shall work 'eight hours daily between 6 a m and C p.m., with payment oi sixpence for each half-hour worked S 6 a.in., in addition, to piecework. The rate of overtime to he paid as time and a quarter; holiday, time and a half; minimum wages a. follows: Slaughtermen, freezing sheep and lambs, 235, log of mutton sheep 20s, potter’s 18s per 100; rams otho, than ram lambs, 4d each, bullocks /. o ich pigs Is each, calves the present rates 1 Provision is made for under ate workers, and for preference t unionists, but the latter will not compel any employer to d.sm.ss nny men now employed by him. WitJ rrn-ard to the matters in, dispute which the Court bad not tune to deal .with, Mr. Bust, representing The slaughtermen, has made application under sections 5 and o2 of the Act to the Governor-in-Council for the appointment of a special Board of Conciliation to consider these matters The Board will consist of two butchers’ employes, two master butchers, and the present Chairman of the Board. 'This is stated to be the fust application of the kind. THE ARBITRATION ACT. ' WELLINGTON, yesterday. Speaking at the Trades Hall last night, after a lecture on Socialism, Mr E Tra-ear, Secretary for Labor, said the Arbitration Act must not be abandoned, but improved. Why not be-in amending by giving, the Court power to introduce a- profit-sharing element? The Act was a good one though badly put into operation, and they must stand by it. till it.became unworkable; then get something better. •