CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1918, Page 7

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

NEW PLYMOUTH TIMBER YARDS' AND SAWMILLS' EMPLOYEES' DISPUTE. FULL SETTLEMENT. The above dispute was continued before the Conciiation Council on Saturday last, when a full agreement on all the poiifs at issue was arrived at. The following is tlio full test of the terms of settlement:—

I Hours of work in tosh sawmills are not to exceed 94 per fortnight. The following are the minimum rates of wages agreed to, the present rate of [pay being shown in parentheses:—Sawyers, who keep their own saws, Is 8d per hour (Is 6d); benchmen, who do not keep saws, Is fld (Is 3d); first break-down-man, Is 8d (Is Sd); second break-down-man, Is Cd (Is 2d); tailer-out, Is Sd (Is 2d); head yardman, £4 per week (£3 ss); cross-cutter keeping saws, Is 8d per hour (Is 4d); other cross-cutters, Is Cd (Is 3d); bullockdriver, Is Cd (Is 3d); first ropeman, Is Gd (Is 3d); second ropeman, Is 6d (Is 3d); jackman, Is fld (Is 3d); all other laborers, including casuals, Is Cd (Is 3d); night-watchmen, £3 10s per week (£2 12s Gd}, the week's work to he at hours (63). Night-watchmen in bush sawmills, employed for more than nine months in any one year, are to receive 14 days' holiday on full pay in each year.

A Bush sawmill means a sawmill other than where timber is dressed by pinning or other machine. Conditions applicable to town workers and workers in 'hush sawmills—A head yardsman is a worker who is in full control of a timber yard and who superintends the running and delivering of orders, and who is responsible for the engagement and dismissal of workers, provided that such yardman shall not be engaged for a longer period than three hours in any one day discharging the duties of an ordinary yardman, such head yardman, complying with the conditions herein set forth, shall be exempt from the operation of the award. The wages of such head yardman shall bo £4 per week. An orderman is a man who is in charge of loading and nn loading drays, trucks, waggons, etc., and who measures timiber in aceordanco with instructions from the bead yardman. The wages of an orderman shall be £3 12s fid per week (£2 14s); yard laborers employed in mill, factory, or yard, on stacking classing, and general work. 1? 5d per hour (Is 2d); box ense makers, Is 5d per hour (Is 2d). Provision is now made for horsedr>vers who cart or deliver timber foto or two hnrses), Is 5d per hour, for every additional horse 5s per week extra. The clauses relating to boys,overtime, and holidays, hours of worki tmder-rnte workers, and preference, are in accordance with the old sward. Night-watchmen in town mills aro to be paid H per week ( £-2 12s fid). The hours are reduced from, f-3 to 54, with 14 days' holiday on full pay after serving nine months in any one year. Wages fo bo paid fortnightly, in cash.

A first machinist Is a man who is employed in, or b capable of grinding into shape sharpening, or setting, any moulding iron, knives, spurs, or scribers, to be used in any machine. His wages are to Is &1 per hour (Is 6d). Second machinist is a man or youth who is capable of sharpening his knives or setting bis machines. TTis wages are to be Is fid per hour (is 3d) Provision is now made for sawyers whose duty it is to hammmer or file their sjws; wages, Is Sd per hour; other sawyers, Is fid.

First-class certificated engine-drivers, 13s fid per day (IBs fid); second-class certificated engine-drivers, 12s fid (9s fid); engine-drivers required to get lip •.team in morning and bank-up fires or fire at night, 5s per week extra. In the case of weekly workers, one week's notice must, he given on either side on the termination of engagement- ' The awarrt is for a period of three years, and is to como into operation on Oetcbcr 1, WIS. The assessors signed an application to the President of the Arbitration Court, askin" that the recommendations of the council he ccmYTted into an award as early as possible. On the motion of Mr. T!. Tf. Tribe, for the employer-;, seconded by Mr. F. J. Lyons, for the union, and supported by tlie other assessors, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Commissioner for the able, painstaking, and courteous manner in which he had presided over the council's deliberations. Mr. flilcs, in returning thanks, said that he sincerely hoped the workers would show their appreciation of thi* generous treatment thev had received at th" half's of emplnve' lo . i Tli« Tanmakl Bakers' and "Pf.itry-