ARBITRATION COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8460, 10 June 1907, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

THE TYPOGRAPHICAL DISPUTE. By Telegraph—Press Association. PALMERSTON N., June 8. At the sitting of the Arbitration Court, yesterday, the president called the attention of'the representatives of the unions in the tpyographical dispute to the fact that the demands made on the country employers were much greater than the union had accepted in Wellington city, both in regard to rate of pay and the minimum output. He asked if it was seriously suggested that the country employers should pay more. After some discussion the union decided to reduce the demands to the same terms as the Wellington agreement, namely, £3 10s a week for day 'work, and £3 16s for night work, with a minimum output of 7,000. Mr Pirani, for the employers, said that this reduced the difference between them considerably, and a compromise could probably be arranged, if the minimum were fixed at 8,000, any increase on that output to be paid for. Further, that prohibition of the payment of bonuses be abandoned, stone hands and bulk hands be struck out of the machine section, proprietors to be allowed to take anyone on as probationers, one apprentice to be allowed to four operators instead of four machines. The union's representatives would not agree to this, and the case proceeded, the union's case being reduced to a basis of th« Wellington award. ThePalmerston evidence was concluded, and the case adjourned to Wanganui, Masterton, Napier and Wellington.