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All journeymen when employed upon any other work shall be paid at the rate of not less than 9s. per day. Each day consists of eight hours, worked within the hours above mentioned. 3. Any journeyman who considers himself not capable of earning the minimum wage may be paid suoh less wage as may from time to time be agreed upon in writing between suoh journeyman and the chairman and secretary of the Workers' Union; and, in default of suoh agreement within twenty-four hours after such journeyman has applied in writing to the secretary of the Workers' Union stating his desire that such wage shall ba so agreed upon, as shall be fixed in writing by the Chairman of the Conciliation Board for the industrial distriot upon the application of suoh journeyman, after twenty-four hours' notioe in writing to the secretary of the Workers' Union, who shall, if desired by him, be heard by such Chairman on such application. Any journeyman whose wage has been so fixed may work and be employed by any employer for such less wo,ge for the period of six calendar months thereafter, and, after the expiration of the said period of six calendar months, until fourteen days' notice in writing shall have been given to him by the secretary of the Workers' Union requiring his wage to be again fixed in manner provided by this clause. 4. Overtime. —All time worked between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. shall ba paid for at the rate of time and a quarter ; between the hours of 8 p.m. and midnight, double time; between midnigut and 8 a.m., double time. On Saturdays, from noon to 5 p.m., time and a half; from 5 p.m. on Saturday to 8 a.m. on Monday, double time; on Christmas Day, double time ; on the following days, which shall be deemed to be holidays, time and a half, namely : New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the birthday of the reigning Sovereign, Boxing Day, Show Day, and Anniversary Day. 5. Any work required to be done to the plant or works of the employer during holidays or night-time shall be paid for at ordinary rates only. 6. Country and Suburban Work. —"Country work" means work performed by a journeyman or apprentice which necessitates his lodging elsewhere than at his usual place of residence. 7. Any journeyman or apprentice employed upon country work shall be conveyed by his employer to and from suoh work free of charge, or his travelling-expenses going to and returning from such work shall be paid by his employer, but once only during the continuance of the work if the work is continuous, and the journeyman or apprentice is not in the meantime recalled by his employer. 8. Any journeyman or apprentice employed upon country work shall be provided by his employer free of charge with suitable board and lodging while so employed. 9. Time occupied in travelling shall be paid for at ordinary rates, but no journeyman or apprentice shall be paid more than an ordinary day's wages for any day occupied by him in travelling, although the hours occupied may exceed eight, unless he is on the same day ocoupied in working for his employer. ,10. " Suburban work " means work performed by a journeyman or apprentice at a distance of over a mile and a half from his employer's place of business, but which does not oome within the definition of " oountry work." 11. Journeymen and apprentices shall be at their employer's place of business at the hour appointed for the commencement of work, but, if previously required so to do, they shall proceed directly to the place where the work is to be performed ; but they shall not ba required to travel any greater distance to such place than the distance to their employer's place of business, and if the distance be greater they shall be paid at the ordinary rate of wages for the time occupied in proceeding to suoh work for the excess of such distance, reckoning the time occupied at the rate of four miles per hour, with a proportionate allowance for more or less than an hour, however or by whatever means they may proceed thereto. 12. Any journeyman or apprentice employed by his employer upon suburban work to reach which a conveyance is required shall be conveyed by his employer to and from such work free of charge, or his travelling-expenses to and from such work shall be paid by his employer, and he shall also ba paid for his time while going to and returning from such work. Any work coming within this rule shall be excluded from the operation of the last rule. 13. Employers to provide Tools. —Employers shall provide their journeymen with soldering-bolts, iron-pipe-fitting tools, metal-pots, plumbing-irons, mandrils, files, and chisel-bars. 14. Apprentices. —The proportion of apprentices shall be one to each journeyman, such journeyman to have been employed in the establishment in which such apprentice shall be taken for the preceding six calendar months on at least two-thirds full time. 15. Apprentices shall serve an apprenticeship of five years, and shall be legally indentured: Provided that apprentices who on tbe 30th day of May, 1899, were serving an apprenticeship without indentures may complete such apprenticeship ; but it shall be incumbent on the employer with whom such apprentices were so serving to give notice in writing to the Workers' Union, within one calendar month from the data of this award, of the name of each such apprentice, and of the period when his service began and when it will end. 16. The wages to be paid to apprentices shall be: During the first year of the apprenticeship, not less than ss. for each week; during the second year, not less that 10s. for each week; during the third year, not less than 15s. for each week ; during the fourth year, not less than £1 for each weak ; and during the fifth year, not less than £1 ss. for each week. Such wages shall be paid to all apprentices, whether serving an apprenticeship at the time of the making of this award or not, and whether indentured or not. 17. Preference of Unionists. —lf and after the Workers' Union shall so amend its rules as to permit any person of good character and sober habits now employed in the trade in this industrial district, and any other person now residing or who may hereafter reside in this industrial district who is of good character and sober habits, and who is a competent journeyman, to become a member of the Workers' Union upon payment of an entranoe-fee not exceeding 10s., and of subsequent contributions, whether weekly or not, not exceeding 6d. per week, upon the written application of the person so desiring to enter the Workers' Union, recommended by two members of the Workers' Union, or accompanied by a satisfactory certificate from some respectable person residing within the industrial district, without ballot or other election, and shall give notice in writing of such amendment, with a copy thereof, by publishing the same in the Lyttelton Times and in the Press, newspapers published in the City of Christchurch, then and in such case and thereafter employers shall employ members of the Workers' Union in preference to nonmembers, provided that there are members of the Workers' Union equally qualified with non-members to perform the particular work required to be done, and ready and willing to undertake it. 18. Notwithstanding the provisions of the last clause employers may in cases of urgency from time to time employ upon daily wages master tradesmen who are not members of the Workers' Union : Provided that not more than one of suoh shall be so employed by any employer at any one time, and that no such master tradesman shall be employed in any one week for a greater length of time than sixteen hours, and that the employer so employing any master tradesman shall within seven days thereafter give notice in writing of such employment to the Workers' Union. 19. Until compliance by the Workers' Union with the conditions of olause 17 employers may employ journeymen whether members of the Workers' Union or not, but no employer shall discriminate against members of the Workers' Union, and no employer shall, in the employment or dismissal of journeymen or in the conduot of his business, do anything for the purpose of injuring the Workers' Union, whether directly or indirectly. 20. When members of the Workers' Union and non-members are employed together there shali be no distinction between members and non-membars, and both shall work together in harmony and under the same conditions, and shall receive equal pay for equal work. 21. So soon as the Workers' Union shall perform the conditions entitling the members of the Workers' Union to preference under the foregoing clauses, and at all times thereafter, tne Workers' Union shall keep, in some convenient place within one mile from the Chief Post-office in the City of Christchurch, a book, to be called the " employmentbook," wherein shall be entered the names and exact addresses of all the members of the Workers' Union for the time being out of employ and desiring employment, and a note as to whether or not such members hold a Drainage Board certificate, and the names, addresses, and occupations of every employer by whom each such journeyman shall have been employed during the preceding nine calendar months. Immediately upon any such journeyman obtaining employment a note thereof shall be entered in such book. The executive of the Workers' Union shall use