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R. Darroch, Cuba Street, City; W. Tonks, Herbert Street, City; Mrs. C. McDonald, Manners Street, City; W. Isaacs, Aro Street, City; G. Bradley, Adelaide Road, Newtown ; T. J. Bell, Revans Street, Newtown ; Davies and Sons, Riddiford Street, Newtown ; W. E. Timmings, Constable Street, Newtown ; W. Cook, Johnsonville; P. Moore, Adelaide Road, Newtown; North and Angel, Johnsonville; J. G. Raine, Karori; W. Hopper, Taranaki Street; D. McKain, Petone. The above employers have not signed the said agreement, and do not belong to the Master Bakers' Union. W. H. Payne, Secretary. This agreement, made in pursuance of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," this 27th day of February, 1900, between the Wellington Master Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers, being a union of employers registered and incorporated under " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," and carrying on operations in the Wellington Industrial District, and whose registered office is at Riddiford Street, in the City of Wellington, and the several persons and firms whose names are subscribed to this agreement, with their several respective addresses and occupations set opposite their names, being employers in the baking trade in the Wellington Industrial District (the said Wellington Master Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers and the several persons and firms, employers as aforesaid, are hereinafter collectively and individually referred to as " the employers "), of the one part; and the Wellington Operative Bakers' Industrial Union of Workmen, being a union of workers registered and incorporated under " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," and whose registered office is at the Rechabite Hall, Manners Street, in the City of Wellington, of the other part; whereby it is agreed as follows:— 1. That nine hours and one half-hour constitute a day's labour, including one half-hour for breakfast and one hour for sponging. 2. The rate of wages shall be as follows: Foremen, not less than £3 par week, with thirteen loaves; second hands, not less than £2 10s. per week, with thirteen loaves ; and any others, not less than £2 ss. per week, with thirteen loaves. All hands to receive dry pay. 3. Tradesmen not fully competent by reason of age or physical weakness may be employed at such a wage as may in each case be settled between the union and the employers. 4. That no baker or workman shall oommenco work before 4 a.m., except on Saturdays, whan he shall not commence before 2 a.m. After the stated hours are up overtime shall ba paid as follows: Time and a quarter up to 5.30 p.m. in the afternoon, and time and a half after 5.30 p.m. in the afternoon. 5. That no apprentice shall be allowed to any employer unless two bona fide journeymen be employed ; if four journeymen be employed, then in such case the employer may employ two apprentices ; but in no case shall the employer employ more than two apprentices, and each apprentice to be bound by indentures for a period of five years. The indentures of the apprentices to be produced to the secretary of the union if required. 6. Jobbers to receive 10s. per diem of nine hours and a half-hour, and overtime as stated in paragraph 4. 7. Sunday sponging shall cover all statutory holidays, as expressed in rule 24 of the union. If workman requested to work holidays they shall be paid at the rate of time and a half. 8. That no carter shall be employed in any bakehouse. The respective positions of a baker and a oarter shall be kept separate : either an employe must be a bond fide baker or a, bond fide carter ; but a baker may deliver bread so long as he does not work more than the prescribed hours. 9. That the employers shall not discriminate against members of the union, nor shall they (the employers), in the engagement or dismissal of their employes or in the conduot of their business, do anything directly or indirectly for the purpose of injuring the union. 10. That in oase of a breach or breaches of this agreement £10 shall be taken as the amount of damage due for each such breach to the employer or the said union entitled to sue for the recovery thereof, and such sum shall be recovered as damages from the said employer or employers or the said union committing or suffering such breach in the Magistrate's Court holden in the district in which suoh breaoh or breaches is or are committed. The parties entitled to sue for and bo sued for the recovery of the said sum of £10 for each breach of this agreement are: The Wellington Master Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers, or any individual member thereof; eaoh or any of the individual employers and firms of employers whose names are subscribed to this agreement; and the Wellington Operative Bakers' Industrial Union of Workmen, or any individual member thereof. 11. That the employers and each of them carrying on business shall be bound by the above provisions, and shall oonform thereto ; and the union and every member thereof shall be bound by the same, and shall conform thereto in like manner. 12. That a district committee be set up, consisting of five members of the Wellington Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers and five members of the Wellington Operative Bakers' Industrial Union of Workmen, to settle all minor disputes. 13. And in the event of a satisfactory deoision not being arrived at, the Chairman of the Conciliation Board be called in to settle any dispute, and his decision to be final. 14. And the employers shall assist the members of the union. The above agreement is to be for the period of twelve calendar months from the 270h day of February, 1900. In witness whereof the said parties hereto have hereunto subscribed their names. W. A. Kellow, Baker, Taranaki Street, President. T. H. Hogg, Baker, President. Before the Board of Conciliation, Wellington Industrial District. —In the matter of an industrial dispute between the Wellington Operative Bakers' Industrial Union of Workmen and Walter Macklin, Tory Street; Patriok Moore, Adelaide Road, Wellington; George Bradley, Adelaide Road, Wellington; Davies and Son, Riddiford Street; Herbert Millar, Courtenay Place ; Thomas Joseph Bell, Revans Street, Newtown; Walter Abraham Kellow, Taranaki Street; John Reed, Taranaki Street; John H. Kilduff, Taranaki Street; Francis McParland, Taranaki Street; Joseph Kirkus, Tory Street; George Dickson, Courtenay Place ; Matthew Mackay, Clyde Quay; Harte Langdon, Brougham Street; Neil Rasmussen, Rintoul Street; William Jounnax, Berhampcre; Mrs. J. D. Greeks, Riddiford Street; William Edward Timmings, Constable Street; Michael Henry McCarthy, Riddiford Street; Thomas Smith, Riddiford Street; John Skinner, Cuba Street; Robert Darroch, Cuba Street; Albert Ernest Dimock, Aro Street; William Isaac, Aro Street ; Henry Denhard, Willis Street; William Tonks, Herbert Street; Mrs. Charlotte McDonald, Manners Street; McEwan and Churchill, Lambton Quay; William Freeman, Molesworth Street; James Cunliffe, Johnsonville; William Cook, Johnsonville; Thomas North, Johnsonville; Robert Auty, Porirua ; Mrs. Robert Leadbetter, Tinakori Road ; William Heintz, Petone; Martin Cargill, Petone; MoVicar and Corson, Petone; Walter Jounnax, Petone; St. Clair Jounnax, Lower Hutt; Charles Pole, Lower Hutt; John George Raine, Karori; Arthur Wheatley, Lambton Quay; George Webb, Vivian Street; and of a reference thereof for settlement. I hereby report that, as some of the parties to the dispute have not signed the industrial agreement embodying the recommendations of my Board, the Board have to that extent been unable to bring about a settlement of the dispute. I was, however, asked by the employers present before the Board to express their great pleasure at the manner in which their employes had worked with them under the old agreement, and had met them in regard to the recommendations wanted. The representatives of the union present also desired to reciprocate the expression of proposals for good feeling made by the employers. Signed at Wellington this 7th day of March, 1900. John Crewes, Chairman of the Board. Wellington Coachbuilders. Under " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," and its amendments.—Before the Board of Conciliation, Wellington District.—ln the matter of an industrial dispute between the Coaohworkers' Industrial Union of Workers (hereinafter called " the union ") and Messrs. Rouse and Hurrell, Courtenay Place,