CONCILIATION BOARD.
OOACHBUILDERS' DISPUTE.
WELLINGTON, May 31.
The recommendations of the Conciliation Board in connection with the ooachworkers' dispute were filed this afternoon. The Board recommends that the number of hours be reduced fron: 48 to 46 per week; that the minimum rate of wage for competent men be £3 per week, with Is 3}£d per hour for broken time, broken time to mean less than thirty six hours in any one week; that pieoe work be abolished except in the case of trimming, when the minimum wageimust be paid; that preference be granted to unionists conditional un the union accepting competent tradesmen without ballot or other election on payment of an entrance fee of 2s 6d and a weekly subscription not exceeding 6d; that the award come into force on July Ist, and remain in force for three years. The rate of wage under the existing award,' which only covers Wellington and suburbs, is Is 3d per hour, but it ' is proposed that the new award shall also include all the districts as far north as Napier and Wanganui.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8153, 1 June 1906, Page 5
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180CONCILIATION BOARD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8153, 1 June 1906, Page 5
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