ARBITRATION COURT.
WAGES IN SHIPS’ GALLEYS. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Wellington, August 11. The Arbitration Court is hearing an application for a new award covering ships’ galley staff's. The wages sought range from £l5 a month for assistant ships’ cooks, to £26 for a cTifef x cook in inter-colonial and foreign services, the same rates as were askgd for when the union was previousy before the court when an award was given which fixed the wages on the Australian scale. Since then they have been reduced to “4he present rates, which the union representative stated were £l3 for a 300j hour month, less than 10|d per hour, | against Is lOd for unskilled labor. The demand is for an 8-hour day making, (with the £4 allowed for keep, an equivalent of Is 8d per hour. The present day is of 10 hours. The Australian award has a 9-hour day and the union asks for 3s overtime pay.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 6
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155ARBITRATION COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 6
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