AGREEMENT REACHED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 27 January 1913, Page 11

AGREEMENT REACHED

THIRTY SHILLINGS PER HUNDRED CONCEDED. FOR THREE YEAR TERM. Press Association. MASTERTON, January 26. As tho outcome of a conference held yesterday between representatives of tho Wellington Farmers’ Meat Company and tho Slaughtermen’s Union an Agreement was arrived at by which tho Waingawa works will remain open. Tho agreement will be for three years end will probably bo registered under tho Arbitration and Conciliation Act nt a later date. Tho company has agreed to pay 30s per hundred for sheep and lambs, and 2s 6d per head for beef cattle. Tho slaughtermen abandoned their demand in regard to learners, so the agreement provides for ono learner to every ten xnon as at present. The whole of tho remaining conditions are similar to those that were previously in existence so far as tho local company is concerned. Tho company will not tako sheep from the clients of other companies. Tho terms of tho new agreement will therefore be, based on the old agreement, sis follow : Tho ordinary hours of work to bo between 7.30 o’clock and 5 p.m. on fivo days of tho week, with ono hour for lunch between 12 and 1 o’clock. On Saturdays work shall ccaso not later than 12 noon, and provision is made for 15 minutes’ “smoko.” Rates for sheep and lambs, or sheep and lambs not otherwise specified, shall bo 30s per hundred; double-fleece sheep, 37s 6d; rams and stags, other than ram lambs, 6d each; dead sheep or lambs, Is per head, no sheep or lambs to be dressed with long shanks, and no daggy sheep or lambs

to bo killed. Tho rates for cattle arc to bo: Bullocks and cows. 2s 6d per head; bulls, 3s 6d: all bulls to ho chopped and soft-sided, otherwise double rates to

bo paid. Calves, up to 1001 b, Is 6d per head ; over 1001 b and up to 2001 b. 2s; over 2001 b, at beef rates. Double rates arc to bo paid for all “Kosher” stuff. All dead cattle done at the works to ho paid for at tho rate of 7s 6d each. Rates for killing pigs are ps follow: Up to 1001 b, Is: up to 2001 b, Is 6d; over 200’b, at a rate of Is for every 1001 b or fraction thereof.

Provision is made for 15 minutes’ “smoko” at as nearly as possible 9.45 in the forenoon and 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

Overtime : Overtime shall be naid for at the rate- of time ami a half, and not more than one hour overtime per clay to bo worked. No

overtime to I*> worked on Saturdays unless a public holiday occurs during the week, when overtime may be worked at the rate of time and a quarter. "AVaiting-time" is also to bo paid for. It is aKree,jl that slaughtermen shall wait fifteen minuteo in tho event of a "cnt-out," but if required to wait longer thoy shall ho paid at the rate of 3s per hour for all such time.