ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1920, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

TRAMWAYIUEN'S AWARD, The Arbitration Court lias tiled ita award in the matter of the dispute between the New Plymouth Tramway Employees' Industrial Union and the Borough Council, the principal provisions of which are as follow; Wages.—Motormen, first year la lOd per hour, thereafter Is lid; conductors Is 9d and la 10d; car cleaners (night) Is 9>/ s d. (day) Is 9d; track men Is Od; shed hands £i 4s per week. Until the Court otherwise orders, the abovo minimum rates are to be increased by way of weekly bonus as follows: Hourly workers %d per hour, weekly workers As per week.

Hours of work.—Basis of eight per day; time waiting to be paid for, also for late specials.

Overtime.—At the rate of time and ahalf. Sunday pay time and H-half. Christmas Day is to be a holiday, and on Good Friday the rates are to be ordinary rates.

I Holidays.—After one year's service, 'l2 consecutive days.

The Court's preference clause i 3 included, and tlie term of the awsud is lixed as fo'.'.ovs: So far as wages are concerned it is to time from October 1, 1320, except in so far as the bonus is concerned, which payments date from November 1, 1020. 'in all other respects the term of the award is from December 10, 11)20, to October 1, 1922. BONUS GRANTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assoclatlot Wellington, Dec, 18. Arbitration Courts awards filed grant, a bonus of 3%d per hour to Wellington painters, and Manawatu and Hawke's Ray painters; the same bonus to Wellington timber workers; 13s per week to Wellington, Masterton, Palmerston North, Feilding, Wanganui, and Rangitikei motor and horse drivers; 3%d per hour to Hawke's Bay carpenters; 13s | per week to male Napier and Hawke's Bay hotel employees, and fis (id to females; 9s per week to Manawatu and Hawke's Bay butchers, and 3%d per hour to Wellington saddlers. ONE BIG UNION FAVORED. Auckland, Dec. IS. A largely attended meeting of trades unionists, after hearing Mr. Bloodworth's report on the Arbitration Court proceedings anent the revised bonus, passed a strongly worded resolution expressing lack of faith in the Arbitration Act and concluding: "The action of Parliament in hurriedly passing legislation to amend the Arbitration Act at the behest of the employing class proves beyond doubt that a class exists, and yet the working class, to obtain a decent standard living or improve it, must abolish the present system (capitalist system) and replace it by a system of production instead of profit. To that end and to prepare for the inevitable struggle we place ourselves on record as favoring one union in each industry and one big union of all workers."