ARBITRATION COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8806, 7 May 1907, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

. Press Association. . Auckland, May 6. Tho Arbitration Court has adopted an agreement between tbe Bookbinders» Paper Eulers* and Cutters* Union and the employers. It provides for a week of 4S hours, competent journeymen rulers and binders to get J!3 a week, first cutters 565, second 50s, third cutters 87s 6d; other cutters 80s, any cutter taken off guillotine work to do journeyman binders' work to get £3 a week for the time so occupied. Casual labor to be paid at tho rate of Is 4|d an hour, overtime to be at the rate of time and a quarter, with double times on Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and time and a half on five annual holidays. Apprentices to get 7s Gd a week for the first year, 10s 6d-,the second year, 15s the third, 20s the fourth, 25s the fifth, and 30a the sixth year. The President of the Court suggest! d to the parties] to the Auckland slaughtermen’s dispute, that in view of the pul - lication of the Gisborne award, an agreement might bo arranged. It was stated tho employees consider the Gisborne award this evening. Mr Bust, representing the Butchera’ Union, asked that the butchers’ award, terminating in June, 1909, he annulled, with a view to bringing it into line with southern awards. The President replied that the Court could not go into tho matter. If it had made an award without jurisdiction the remedy was for one of the parties to apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition. Mr Bust withdrew his application.