BRICK WORKERS
CLAIMS FOR, AWARD. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Jan. 25. The claims of the New Zealand Brick, Tile, Pottery and Clay Workers’ Industrial Association of Workers for a new Dominion award were heard at the Conciliation Council to-day. The principal proposals, with the employers 1 counter-proposals in parentheses, are: — A 40-hour week (same) ; overtime at time and a-half for three hours (four hours), thereafter double rates (same) ; minimum hourly wages, gangers and moulders, 3s (2s 6)d), stickers and pipemakers, 2s 10d (2s sd) ; setters and drawers, 2s 9d (2s 4d) ; burners, 2s 9d (2s 3d) ; all other workers, 2s 6d (2s 2£d) ; under-age workers, 27s 6d to 82s 6d (15s to 72s 6d) ; female workers, not mentioned (15s to 455) ; maximum temperature of kiln in which workers will work, 120 deg. Fahr. (13Qdeg). Other conditions covered specific work and holidays. To-day’s proceedings were almost entirely in committee, the questions at issue being wages and holidays, on which no agreement was reached. The council will resume to-morrow morning.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 16
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168BRICK WORKERS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 16
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