LABOURERS WAGES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 107, 27 July 1927, Page 13

LABOURERS WAGES

INCREASE ASKED FOR CONCILIATION COUNCIL SITTING (From Our Oion Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Tuesday. General increases of from 2d to 3d an hour are sought by the local bodies section of the Auckland Builders, General and other Labourers’ Union of Workers Conciliation Council at Hamilton to-day, when Commissioner P. Hally presided. The employers’ representatives were Messrs. J. Tidd and R. Worley, Hamilton Borough Council, W. E. Anderson, Auckland Employers’ Association, McLean, Rotorua Borough Council, S. R. James and T. Dix, Cambridge Borough. The union was represented by Mr. J. Sutherland. The increased rates sought are: Quarrymen, from Is lOd to 2s; pipelayers, Is lOd to 2s; rock drillmen, shot brers, hammer men and drillers, from 2s to 2s 3d; tool sharpeners, 2s to 2s 3d; casual labourers working in shafts or trenches 6ft. deep, or tunnels, Is lOd to 2s Id; sanitary carters, from 17s to 13s a shift: gas stokers, from 15s 4d to 17s; shift sanitary drain layers, Is llid to 2s 2d; hour permanent hands, £4 3s to £4 16s a week; wages of permanent drivers to be the same as those payable to drivers under any award or agreement at present in force between employers and the General Drivers’ Union.