LATE SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1911, Page 5

LATE SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE

THE ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS. AWARD OF THE BOARD. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received -20, 10.20 p.m. Sydney, December 20. The speci;il board appointed to enquire into tlie late waterside workers' trouble lias issued its award. It applies to wharf laborers employed in inter-State coastal trades, and practically leaves the rate, of pay unaltered. The pay for casual work is fixed at Is 3d per hour. The claim for Is (id is refused. The overtime rate between 7 oil Mo mi ay morning jtnd 4 on Saturday afternoon is fixed at 10'/ 2 d an hour. For work on Sundays, Christmas Day and flood Friday, and Eight Hours Day, tho pay is to be 4s Gd an hour, and on other recognised holidays 2s 3d. Some of the working conditions are varied, representing reduction of working bonis. Men engaged on non-set work are to be paid full rates for the first hour or portion tiiereof, and halfrates afterwards. The much-disputed tea hour is fixed at from 5.30 to <1.30. Preference is granted to unionists. The award has a currency of two years. LUMPERS DISSATISFIED. THREATEN FURTHER. TROUBLE. Received 21, 1 a.m. Sydney, December 20. The wharf laborers are dissatisfied with the award of the Arbitration Court, and it is understood they intend to appeal on the ground that the award .is practically the old agreement, against which the}- struck. A recurrence of the trouble is threatened. Men engaged for the North Coast Company's steamer Burringlwr to-night refused to work overtime on the vessel. She is loaded 1 heavily at the bows, but her stern is light. The oflice staff finished the loading.