WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 177, 13 December 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

LABORERS' DEMANDS,

By Telegraph—Press Association,

Wellington, Last Night. All the suburban municipxlities and the other large employers of general labor in the vicinity of Wellington have been, or are being, served with a new set of claims bv the General Laborers 1 Union. It is claimed that a full week's I work shall not exceed forty-four hours, j and shall nut exceed eight hours on five [ days of the week, and four hours on Saturday, the working hours to be-be-tween the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on five days of the week, and between the hours of 7 a.m. and 12 noon on Saturday. In tunnel work the hours shall not exceed eight per shift from bank to bank, with half an hour for crib time. Six hours shall constitute a day's work when workers are working in wet places, or in foul air, and shall be paid for as if the workers had worked eight hours. The following are asked as the minimum rates of wages for the several classes of workers:—Tunnel men and timber men. 12s per shift: all other workers employed underground, 12s per, shift. Men engijjed in sinking shafts, 12s per shift. Pipe-layers, Is 6d per' hour; caulkers, powder-men, hammer and driller men, jumpermen and laborers engaged in drainage, sewerage and all other classes of laboring work not herein specified, Is 3d per hour. Overtime pay is sought at the rate of time and j a half for the first two hours, and double | time thereafter. Double pay is also asked for the work done on the following holidays:—New Year's D,ay, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labor Day, the birthday of the Sovereign, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. /