ARBITRATION COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9100, 20 March 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

Press Association. Wellington, March 19. Tho Arbitration Court, at today’s sitting, proceeded with the hearing of the Wharf Labourers’ dispute. The Union S.S. Go., .the Wellington Harbour Board, and the local and foreign-going shipowners were severally represented. The demands of the Union included a Saturday half-holiday for all classes of labour or overtime pay in lieu thereof, an increase of Bd for working cement, lime, manure, and shale, an increase of 2d for handling coal on shovel and top work, an increase of 6d for handling frozen produce in freezing chambers and 3d in cool chambers, proper accommodation and fares for out-ports, and payment from tho time of leaving the place of engagement till returning for those men working in the stream. The demands for holidays aie practically the same as tho&e in the existing award, excepting the asking for a special day for a picnic, double overtime on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Union Picnic Day, and double time asked for working meal hours. It was also asked for prompter payment of wages. Other new features were that men should be paid overtime for time spent in “standing by” under orders; that payment should be from time of the engagement until discharged ; in the handling of beef not less than six men to be employed on a side—tbp.t the award should apply to permanent hands as well as the casual representative of employers.

The case for the Union was not concluded when the Court rose.