ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

COOKS AND WAITERS’ AWARD. ELECTRICAL WORKERS’ UNION. Pre6a Association. WELLINGTON, March 27. An order lias been made by tho Arbitration Court to remedy “an obvious defect” in the Cooks land. Waiters’ award, dated 19th .December, 1907, which does not fix the wages of waiters, after the third, in hotels where more than three waiters -are employed. For the .purpose of remedying the defect the Court ordered that .in- clause 1, -under tho heading of waiters, the words “third £1 7s 6d” should be struck out, and the following words substituted, “third and others £1 7s 6d.” r . The dispute between the Wellington Electrical Workers’ Industrial Union -and the employers has been amicably settled. According to Mr. W. J. Reardon, who appeared for the Union, tho wages of competentelectrical fitters have been fixed at Is 6d per hour, and the minimum rate of wages for electrical wire men shall be Is 4d per hour. -Forty-six hours shall complete a -week’s work. When workers are engaged on- country work suitable lodgings are to be provided for them when, so employed. The proportion df .assistants is fixed at one to every journeyman for the first year. Assistants are to receive 7s per week, 12s -for the second year, and 20s per week for the third year. Assistants who lifive worked at- the trade for a period of three years may be emnloved as improvers at not less than 9d per hour for the first 12 months -and Is per hour for a further period of 12 months. No improver shall be employed -where less than two journeymen are employed. Preference of employment is granted to unionists. Tools are to be .provided by employers, and any employee while working ut installing or overhauling store batteries shall be paid Is per dozen in addition to the minimum wage.

THE DKIVEHS’ DISPUTE. Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 27. Tlie Arbitration Court again considered the drivers’ dispute this afternoon- Mr. Scott, oil behalf of the employers, stated that the parties had arrived at an amicablo settlement with regard to tlio whole of the clauses of the agreement with the exception of clause two, which deals with wages. This clause was to be left to the Court without any comment. Mr. Scott explained to a reporter that tho terms of the agreement were on tho lines of the present award,, and there was very little alteration. Overtime was increased to Is 3d all round ; tlio hours were the same and the conditions the same except in regard to a few unimportant alterations on the lines of the present award.