ENGINEERS' DISPUTE.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 235, 15 January 1898, Page 3

ENGINEERS' DISPUTE.

♦ Thk Board of Conciliation has given its decision in the d'spute between the Cbristchurch branch of the Amalgamated Society of L'ngineers and the employers. It recommends that 48 hours shcu!d constitute a week's work, the daily division of time to b« a matter of mutual arrangement between the exploycrs and the workmen, and r.o ordinary day to exceed eight hours and three-quarters. The minimum rate of wages for journeymen, fitters, turners, brass finishers, coppersmiths, mill wrights, milling-machine men,and blacksmiths shall be 10s per day of eight hours; pattern makers lis per day of eight hours ; for planers, borers, slotters, and o'.her machine men 9s per day of e'ght hours. Men unable to earn the minimum wage tc be paid such lesser sum as shall be bxed by a committee nominated by the employers and the union, and if they cannot agree by the chairman of the Board of Conciliation. Overtime shall be paid at tho rate of time and a-quarter for the first two hours beyond tho recognised hours for an ordinary day ; beyond two hours the rate of pay to be increased to time and a-half. As to apprentices no arrangement in force at date of filing dispute is to Le interfered with. All app: entices shall serve five years. The number of apprentices in each department of the trade shall not exceed ore to every three journeymen, 'ihe employers in employing labour shall not discriminate between unionists and nonnuionists, nor do anything directly or indirectly to operate to the injury of the union. It is considered unlikely that the award will be accepted by both parties, who have to answer within seven days, __________