PRINTERS’ DISPUTE
JUDGMENT OF OOURT PIECEWORK AND NIGHT SHIFTS (Bj Telegrams.—Pre«s association) GREYMOUTII. Saturday Reserved Judgment in the New Zealand typographers’ dispute was delivered by the Court of Arbitration. The two matters for consideration were the question of the count for piecework and extra payment for night work, the remainder of the award, which covers all industrial districts, having been settled in the Conciliation Council. The Judgment decrees that the existing method of computing the wages of pieceworkers on machines shall be maintained and night operators shall be paid one-tenth more than the rates of day workers, as fixed in j the Conciliation Council. In a memorandum attached to the ! Judgment the Court stated that it j was of the opinion that case had not 1 been made out for the abolition of a ! practice which had been regularly ! followed for not less than eight years and which had been legally permissable for 26 years. Mr A. L. Monteith, the employees’ representative, dissented from the majority finding of the Court on the question of cast-up for operators, expressing the opinion that as wider faced type slowly Increased the system worked more to the employers’ ad van t age.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20493, 9 May 1938, Page 3
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198PRINTERS’ DISPUTE Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20493, 9 May 1938, Page 3
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