SOME STRAIGHT TALK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10144, 21 January 1911, Page 5

SOME STRAIGHT TALK.

BY A CONCILIATION COMMISSIONER. AN UNREASONABLE DEMAND. By Telegra'vh — press Association, WELLINGTON, Last Night. Some straight talk was indulged in by Mr Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, during the hearing to-day of the Carpenters' and Joiners' dispute. The Union'asks/that a full working week shall consist of five days each :of eight hours; that the) minimum wage* be Is' 8d per hour, making £3 6sßd per week; and that all Vtime worked tin Sattirdaysbe paid for rt the rate of double time. . ; ; Mr Hally said he thought" the Union was making a mistake. "You j expect," he addet!, "the employers to give you forty hours a week; but | I cannot consider it a reasonable view at the present time. Had the Union come along and said it wanted the same hours as elsewhere in New Zealand, 44 hours, I candidly confess I believe the employers would have met the Union; but when you come' and ask for forty hours, I can only describe it as- unreasonable. Then, again, you want the wages in.!ci'easedfrom per hour to Is Bd. • This, request is;- out --of -the jqtre&tiom I: believe- you- have done Ifchis-ilor.: the purpose- of giving employment to a, number of men who jare 'unable ,to find .work.; I am of. jqpimon that it would not only spoil |any cripple it : 's-;' itogether; "as welra's liaras's. trade!?' , r :'