THRESHING MACHINES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 6

THRESHING MACHINES.

AN INTERESTING ARBITRATION COURT AWARD. Judge Sim has delivered his Arbitration Court Award in the case of the industrial dispute between the Waimate Workers Industrial Union (threshkg millers) and the employers. As there are a number of threshing mills in the Wairarapa district, no doubt extracts from the Award will be read with interest. inter alia, it is ordered that piecework, when men are shifting the mill from stack to stack, shall be Is per hour; also when the workers are employed by the hour the rate of pay shall not be less than Is per hour. The main piecework ratete of pay are as follow : —(a) When threshing from the stack —12s per 1,000 bushel of wheat or barley, snd 10s per 1,000 bushels of oats, (b) When threshing from the stook, —14s per 1,000 bushels of wheat or barley, and lis per 1,000 bushels of oats. All fcod shall tie supplied on the cooperative system, the employer to supply the galley, cooking-utensils, and coals only, at a charge of 15s per week; and the cook, food, and all other requirements are to be paid for tiy the workers. A week's notice, or pay, of the termination of employment shall be given by the employer to his men; and of their intention to leave the employment the men shall give a week's notice to fheir employer or forfeit at week's pay at the previous week's rat? of earnings or pay, which amount' shall go to the provision fund. This clause, however, shall not prevent any employer from dismissing without notice or compensation any worker for incompetency. Preference is to begiven to unionists where practicable. Drivers and feeders are exempt from this award, which applies to all threshing-mills working in the South Canterbury district, whether the owners are members of the South Canterbury Thresh-ing-mill Owners' Union or not.