ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 121, 31 August 1910, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

PAfNTERS' AWARD. Uv Telegraph.— Press Association. ... . Wellington, Tuesday. Ihe Arbitration Court has made an award which settles the dispute that I existed between the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators' Industrial Union of Workera and the Wellington Master Painters Industrial Association of employers and thirty firms and tradesmen in Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Johnsonville. Hie award operates from August 25 1910, until August 25. 1913. The minimum rate of wages for journeymen employed at any branch of the' trade is fixed at Is 3d per hour. The hours of, labour from September 1 to April 30] shall be froin 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on five' days of the week, and from S a.m. tonoon on Saturdays; and from May ll to August 31 from S a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on •live days of the week and from' 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Over-! time rates and apprentices' wages are specified. Special provisions for coun-' try and suburban work are included, and the award also allows for prefer-1 enee to unionists and for payment of a| smaller wage to incompetent workmen.! The award, which embodies without alteration the agreement of the parties, applies to all employers carrying on 'business within a radius of twentyfive miles from Wellington Post Office.