ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2107, 15 June 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Press Association.

AVANGANUI, Thursday. The Arbitration Court concluded this morning, when the flaxmillere dispute, continued from. Palmerston, was heard, the evidence being in the nature of objections by the employers to the recommendations of the Conciliation Board. The Court sits at Napie: oil Monday, and later on at jMasterton. DUNEDIN, yesterday. Tbe Arbitration Court is expected to sit here about the end of July. Six disputes are set down for hearing in Dunedin. There are si* compensation esses for hearing here, and one for li< drill" in the country, and seven applications for enforcement of awards here, and one to be heard in the country.

AUCKLAND, yesterday. The Auckland Slaughtermens’ In dustrial Union of AA’orkers has filed particulars of its prospects for an auard under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and lias trade application for a special Board to deal with the dispute. The conditions of slaughtering for the export trade were settled during a recent sitting of the Arbitration Court iu Auckland, the agreement- being incorporated into an award, and it is the branch dealing with slaughtering for local consumption which now requires the conditions of work to bo settled. The men’s proposals, which have been -already published, provide for piece work, and also weekly wages where a certain maximum quantity of stock is killed.

AUCKLAND, last night. Tlie award of tho Arbitration Court in the Auckland "Waterside Workers dispute has been received b- the Registrar. It fixes the wages substantially'as asked for by the men. Tho working hours are fixed at from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m., exclusive of meal hours, with the exception of Saturdays, when tho hours shall be 8 till 4. The wages are fixed as follows: Stevedores’ and general cargo work, including tally-men, stackers, alia loaders. Is 3d per hour, overtime 2s; handlnig coal, Is 6d, overtime 2s; men employed as plankmen, 2s, overtime 2s Cd; trimming or carrying coal, 2s, overtime 2s 6d; repair work. Is 3d, overtime 2s; carrying and stowing frozen meat aboard ships, 2s, ■ovcu'time 3s; ditto, on wharf, Is 6d, overtime 2s, and in cool chambers Is 2d. overtime 2s; guano workers (in bulk), Is 6d,. overtime 2s; nightwatchmen, 11s per night, double time, to be paid for Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and overtime xoi w orlv on - nine other holidays dur- x mg tlie year. Preference is a wardi 1S P rovi ded that the award snail not apply to permanent emplovT?, S i'_ lilt a '™rd will _ operate until Jul 19th, 1909, or thereafter until superseded by another. Memorandum to the a wad reads:—“At the hearing Mr. Way, who appeared for he union, stated that if preference of employment were granted to memtiers or the union, the union would undertake to do all in its power to stop pilfering oil the wharf. The Court expects this to be carried out.” Mr. Brown does not concur in the provisions of the award by which PJ e .i oreUCe; of employment is granted to the union. He thinks that the circumstances in Auckland are different from those in Grevmouth and \\ estport, where preference has already been granted. . >.