CONCILIATION BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 5 April 1907, Page 2

CONCILIATION BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS.

Per Press Association. Nelson, April 3. The Nelson Conciliation Board, after n lengthy sitting, Jiled recommendations, to-day in connection with the demand of the Nelson Laborers' I'niou. The recommendations are very full. They classify labor and work, and provide that wevking time in a week shall not exceed 47 hours for constant employment, with minimum wage of 42s for general laborers, and for builders' laborers Is I'/.d per hour, heavy work Is Id, for hazardous work Is 2d, for medium \wrk lid, and for light and gardening work per hour as minimum, youths only to be employed ill the proportion of one to four. Overtime at the rale of one and a quarter for the first two hours, ami time and a half later. Laborers working more than two miles from the centre of (lie city to be paid for lini;. reasonably occupied walking to and from work, or may be conveved ill the employer's cost. The minimum for drivers shall be 44s for one horse and 48s for two, and for workers in wood and coal yards 435. Payment for tinder-rate workmen to he the subject of agreement, or to be fixed by the chairman of the Board. After heariii.; the secretary of the union, preference is to be given unionists who arc equally qualified with non-unionists. Kmployers outside a ten-mile radius are not lo be bound by the last-staled provision where local men are available.

J'he Hoard set forth the opinion that it is only natural and right that, ,i man's labor should bu worth his pay ami that his wages .should be «„ ,„„o'h as, with eeoiiomy and prudence, will enable hiii: l.i coiul'ortably maintain himself and his family, to provide lor the means of paying medical attendance by benefit society or oiherwisc, ami lay by enough lor his support when his laborin- powers hive failed, and said they had considered the demands, the amoiiu't of present earnings, and the cost of living end lmd come to the conclusion that the earnings bear such comparison lo llie liviiijr cost as will not admit of tlie liillilincnl. of the. foregoing conditions. The parlies were recomincuded to enter into an industrial agreement on the provisions specified till Mav, l!lll!l.