FLAX-CUTTERS’ WAGES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2796, 11 October 1924, Page 2

FLAX-CUTTERS’ WAGES.

10 - PER TON FOR “SIDECUTTERS.”

ARBITRATION COURT DECISION.

A judgment affecting the rates of wages payable to flaxmill workers in the Wellington industrial district was delivered by Air Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court at Wellington. yesterday. The matter before the court was an application by the employers to give a rate for cutting Has by what is known as the “side-lea f” process. It was in the nature of an appeal lr.,m 1 lie decision of the local inspector of awards by which a minimum rate of 16/71 per ton was lixed. The employers contended that Id/- was a fair and equitable rate and ihe union asked that a rate of 1G 71 should be fixed.

“li appears from the evidence,” said His Honour, “that 16/- was the minimum rale paid before the mailer was referred to the. inspector. Wo have decided that tallies should be taken for a further period of six months, such tallies io indicate the quality lla.x cut, the daily hours worked, the rate per ton paid, and I lie weekly earnings of each man. Meanwhile we give Ihe minimum rate as from October 6th, 1924, at 'Mi/- per ton, this rate to be paid until the matter is finally fixed by the court.”