THE BUILDING TRADE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9477, 21 June 1909, Page 7

THE BUILDING TRADE.

OON OILIATORS ’ In giving its reasons for the form ■of the agreement between the carpenters and joiners and their employers after their recent dispute, the Conciliation Council comments on the state of the building trade. The conciliators say:—“ln the demands of the workers, Is 8d per hour was asked, and a decrease in the number of working hours ‘ • The Council, in giving consideration to these items, has bad to take 'into aoconnt the present state of the "building industry in Wellington, and the conditions of trade generally, and after giving full attention to these and other important factors, 'they have fonnd it impossible to maake any increase in the ordinary :Xate of wages (Is 4d per hour), or to decrease the number of hours worked under the conditions of the ■previous award (45 hours a week). “In noting this decision, it is to 1 ha understood that had the ordinary conditions of trade obtained, and shaving regard to the ,cost of living ;in as compared with ■other chief centres in the Dominion, ■there would have been no objection nraised by the employers’ tives on the council to give fayonr■■abie consideration to both the items -aforementioned. The anion irepresentatives agree to accept this decision, under those special circumstances, and in view of the fact that rche agreement arrived at shall expire on the Slat July, 1910.”