LABOURERS’ DISPUTE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9136, 4 May 1908, Page 2

LABOURERS’ DISPUTE.

THE AWARD. Press Association. Wellington, May 2. The ‘ Wellington Conciliation Board’s recommendations in the dispute between the General Labourer s Union (country districts) and employees recommends that the hours of'labour shall not week. The hours to be 7 to 5 except on Saturdays, when they are to be 7 to noon. It necessary to prepare material, men J may be employed for half an hour before the usual time for commencement at ordinary rates. Tunnel work to be carried on in shifts of 8 hours, four on Saturdays. Bach shift to include half an hour crib time. Working time to be computed from bank to bank. Six hours constitute a working day in wet places or foul air, pay to be as for a day of eight hours. Tunnel men and timber men 10s a day shift, all other underground workers 9s. In the building trade scaifolders Is 3d an hour, others Is 2d, crusher men Is 4d, ; powder men, sewer men, asphalt men, and tar men, Is 3d ; others, Is l>£d; wages to be paid weekly in cash. Overtime lor the first two hours, time and a ; the next two hours, time and a half. After that two hours or for work on Good Friday or Christmas Day. double rates; other holidays time and a half.