TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1922, Page 5

TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD.

ARBITRATION COURT’S FINDING. WAGES AND HOURS FIXED. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The new award by the Arbitration Court with respect to the typographical dispute has been filed. The award is a Dominion one and the rates of wages fixed will not be subject to variation prior to May 1, 1923. The award will come into force on November 27. With the exception of some questions of minor importance, said Mr. Justice Frazer in his memorandum, the subjects left for the determination of the Court were wages, hours, holidays and payment for same. These have been settled by the Court as appears by the award, and other .provisions of the award embody the agreement arrived at by the parties. The Court is not responsible for the form of the preference clause, insofar as special provision of sub-clauses (B) are concerned. The members of the Court have adopted the award as a whole, though they were not unanimous in respect of every clause. The Court decreed that payment for work shall either be by time or piecework and the minimum rates of pay per week shall be as follow:—Linotype, intertype, and linograph machine, day operators, employed in cities and within a radius of ten miles of Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin £5 ss; day operators employed in towns outside the cities £5 Is; monotype machines, city, day operators, £5 2s; country, day operators, £4 18s; monoline, typograph, barotype, simplex and other composing machines, day operators, in a town with a population over 7000 dnd under, £4 Ils.

If employed by the hour casuals shall be paid 3s an hour for day work and Cid extra for night work. The cost of living bonus at lid an hour will be paid casual operators unless and until the Court decides otherwise. Night workers will receive ten per cent, extra, with a maximum of 10s. Stone and bulk hands, city bulk hands and machine correctors £4 16s 3d for day work and for night work £5 6s 3d; second stone hands, night work, £5 11s 3d; day work, £5 Is’ 3d. Any bulk hand employed casually must be paid not less than 2s fid an hour for day work and 3s for night work. These workers also receive the cost of living bonus of lAd per hour. Probationers employed on linotype or other composing machines £4 5s for day work and night work £4 15s; by the hour for day work 2s fid and night work 2s 9d. A linotype operator is not deemed efficient unless he has attained the output stated by the Court in a separate clause. Minimum rates for linotype, intertype, and linograph operators are also defined by the Court. I The week’s work is stated at 42 . hours, and in oases where a weekly halfholiday is not given the hours must not exceed 4S. All time beyond the hours prescribed must be paid for at the rate of time ami a half for the first three hours and thereafter double rates. Additional pay is allowed for Saturday night special editions. Double rates are allowed for Sundays and certain holidays. Time and half is allowed for other holidays and a week’s holiday per year, in addition to specified holidays, on' the completion of each year of serin a memorandum attached to the award for letterpress machinists for 'he Northern Taranaki, Wellington,

Westland, Canterbury and Otago industrial districts, the Judge stated that a number of clauses were agreed on at a conference of parties, and wages and holidays were the principal matters left for the Court to decide. The members of the Court adopted the award as a whole, though they were not unanimous in respect of every clause. Ihe wages in this award were also fixed on the city population classification basis, ranging from £4 16s 3d for first-class letterpress machinists. bookbinders, paper-rulers, lithographic machinists, transferrers, hand pressmen, embossers, multi-color printers, to £2 for first year juniors, with the exceptions in case of certain workers, who are paid 5s extra. Ten per cent, extra is allowed for night workers. The award also made provision for piece work. An annual and a weekly holiday on pay i‘3 also allowed for. Workers are to work on a specified holiday if desired to do so, an extra day being allowed for the annual holiday for th>s