CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 16 April 1912, Page 7

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

_ j SITTING AT NEW PLYMOUTH. {

CARPENTERS' AND JOINERS' DISPUTE.

I The Conciliation Council continued its I sittings at New Plymouth yesterday morning, in the Borough Council chambers. Mr. T. Harle Giles, Conciliation ' Commissioner for the Northern and Taranaki industrial districts, presided. Hearing was commenced of the carpenters' and joiners' dispute. The assessors were:—For the union, Ivor Hazell and G. Blotherwick, of Wellington, and C. j D. Arnold, of New Plymouth; for the employers, W. F. Brooking, J. W. Boon and F. A. Coleman, all of New Plymouth. Mr. Grenfell, secretary of the Employers' Association, Wellington, appeared for the employers. THE MEN'S DEMANDS. The men's demands stipulate a week of 48 hours, at the following wages: Journeymen carpenters and joinercarpenters, joiners and wood-turners, la Od per hour; on all outside jobs the man responsible for carrying oiit the work, i.e., lias charge of plans and gives instructions to the other men, shall not receive less than 1* per day extra. Overtime, shall, if it is demanded, he paid as follows: For the first two hours, time and a quarter, after the first two hours and until 10 p.m., time and a half; between 10 p.m. and the recognised time of starting work the next morning, if worked continuously, double time. Provision is made for' the usual public holidays, under-rate workers, suburban and country work. Piece-work is prohibited, except in stair-building, and the work shall not be sub-let on wages only. With regard to apprentices, it is asked that the number shall be limited to one for every three journeymen, and that the term of apprenticeship shall run for five years. Preference to unionists ia insisted upon, and it is also stipulated that the award shall have a currency of two years.

THE COUNTER PROPOSALS. The employers, in their counter proposals, suggest a week of 47 hours, at the following rates of pay: For all journeymen carpenters, joiners, carpenters and joiners, not less than Is 4y 2 d per hour; for carpenters and joiners employed in any factory in which the whole of their work is done in the factory, not less than 1* 3d per hour. As regards overtime, the employers stipulate: For the first two hours' and until 10 p.m.. time and a half; between If) p.m. and the recognised time, for starting n PN t morning, if worked continuously."double time. Provision is also made" for the usual public holidays, under-rate workers, suburban and country work, and piecework is dealt with along the same lines as in the employees' demands. Preference to unionists is objected to, and it is asked that the award shall have a currency of three years.

The council sat all day and then ad' jonrned until this morning.