and noon. Notice by advertisement in the daily papers of the dis-
trict shall be given by the union of the place where such employ-
ment-book is kept, and of any change in such place ; and notice
thereof shall be also given in writing to the employers' union.
9. Industrial Agreements.
Nothing in this recommendation shall be deemed to supersede
or in any way affect any industrial agreements made between the
parties, or any of them, and duly signed and filed before the
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15th July, 1901 ; but the conditions and provisions of the said
industrial agreements shall, under this recommendation, be the
conditions of settlement between the parties to them during their
currency.
10. That, as between the unions and the members thereof and
the employers and each and every of them, the terms, conditions,
and provisions set out in the foregoing paragraphs shall be binding
upon the unions and every member thereof, and upon the employers
and each and every of them, and that the said terms, conditions,
and provisions set out in the said foregoing paragraphs shall be
binding upon the unions and every member thereof, and upon the
employers and each and every of them, and that the said terms,
conditions, and provisions shall be deemed to be and they are
hereby incorporated in and declared to form part of the Board's
recommendation ; and, further, that the unions and every member
thereof, and the employers and each and every of them, shall respec-
tively do, observe, and perform every matter and thing by the said
terms, conditions, and provisions on the part of the unions and the
members thereof, and on the part of the employers and each and
every of them, respectively required to be done, observed, and per-
formed, and shall not do anything in contravention of the said
terms, conditions, and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by
and observe and perform the same. And the Board recommends
that any breach of the said terms, conditions, and provisions shall
constitute a breach of this recommendation, and that the sum of
£100 shall be the maximum penalty payable by any party or person
in respect of any such breach ; provided, however, that the aggre-
gate amount of penalty under or in respect to this settlement shall
not exceed the sum of £500.
11. The settlement shall be for two years, from the 19th Sep-
tember, 1901, to the 18th September, 1903 (both days inclusive).
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 10th day of August,
1901. John Crewes, Chairman.
(85.) WELLINGTON MOULDERS. -BECOMMENDATIONS.
Under **The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900."
Before the Board of ConciUation in the WeUington Industrial
District. — In the matter of an industrial dispute between the
Welhngton Iron and Brass Moulders' Industrial Union of
Workers and William Cable and Co., of Waterloo Quay,
Wellington; S. Luke and Co., Manners Street, Wellington;
Crabtree and Sons, Eva Street, Wellington ; Edward Seager,
Victoria Street, WeUington ; David Robertson, Old Custom-
house Street, Wellington ; Herbert Gaby, Revans Street, Wel-
lington ; Hosken and Sons, Palmerston North ; Murray and
Sons, Wanganui ; — Armstrong, Wanganui; Niven and Co.,
Napier; Williams and Co., Napier — employers; and of a
reference thereof for settlement.
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The Board, having taken a considerable amount of evidence,
heard argument, and carefully considered the particulars of the
dispute, doth hereby recommend that the dispute be settled on the
following conditions : —
1. That only two classes of workers shall be recognised —
journeymen and apprentices.
2. That the ordinary time to be worked by any journeyman in
each week shall not exceed 46J hours ; all hours worked beyond
that time in any week shall be considered and paid for as overtime.
3. That the minimum wage for competent journeymen moulders
for other than range-plate work shall be Is. 3d. per hour, and for
range-plate work Is. l^d. per hour.
4. That overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time and a
quarter for the first two hours ; after that time, time and a half.
Double time to be paid for Sundays, Chri;3tma8 Day, New Year's
Day, Sovereign's birthday, Good Friday, and Labour Day. Other
statutory holidays, time and a half.
5. That the proportion of boys to journeymen shall be one to
three or fraction of the first three, and that all apprentices shall be
indentured for six years, except that this paragraph 5 shall not
apply to plate-moulding.
5a. That the wages for apprentices shall be not less than — for
the first year, 6s. per week ; second year, lis. per week ; third
year, 16s. per week; fourth year, £1 Is. per week; fifth year,
£1 6s. per week ; sixth year, £1 16s. per week.
6. That all piecework and sub-contracting shall be strictly pro-
hibited.
6a. That the sentence in paragraph 5 requiring the indenturing
of apprentices for six years shall apply only to apprentices taken on
or after the 24th August, 1901, and shall not touch arrangements
existing up to that date.
6b. That any journeyman who considers himself not capable
of earning the wage prescribed in paragraph 3 may be paid such
less wage as may from time to time be agreed upon in writing
between such journeyman and the president or secretary of the
workers' union ; and, in default of such agreement within twenty-
four hours after such journeyman has applied in writing to the
secretary of the union stating his desire that such wage shall be
so agreed upon, as shall be fixed in writing by the Chairman of the
Concihation Board for the industrial district upon the application
of such journeyman after twenty-four hours' notice in writing to
the secretary of the 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 wage 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 union requiring his wage to be again fixed
in manner prescribed by this clause.
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7. That while the anion's rules permit any person of good
character and sober habits now employed in the trade in this in-
dustrial district, and any person 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 such union
upon payment of an entrance fee not exceeding 58., and of subse-
quent contributions, whether payable weekly or not, not exceeding
6d. per week, upon a written application of the person so desiring
to join the union, without ballot or election, then and in such case
employers shall employ members of the union in preference to non-
members, provided that there are members of the union equally
qualified with non-members to perform the particular work required
to be done and ready and willing to undertake it ; provided that
this clause shall not interfere with engagements subsisting between
employers and non-unionists on the 16th July, 1899.
8. That, as between the union and the members thereof and the
employers and ea.ch and every of them, the terms, conditions, and
provisions set out in the foregoing paragraphs shall be binding upon
the union and every member thereof, and upon the employers and
each and every of them, and that the 8ai<i terms, conditions, and
provisions set out in the said foregoing paragraphs shall be binding
upon the union and every member thereof, and upon the employers
and each and every of them, and that the said terms, conditions, and
provisions shall be deemed to be and they are hereby incorporated
in and declared to form part of the Board's recommendation ; and,
further^ that the union and every member thereof, and the em-
ployers and each and every of them, shall respectively do, observe,
and perform every matter and thing by the said terms, conditions,
and provisions on the part of the union and ihe members thereof,
and on the part of the employers and each and every of them,
respectively required to be done, observed, and performed, and
shall not do anything in contravention of the said terms, conditions,
and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by and observe and
perform the same. And the Board recommends that any breach of
the said terms, conditions, and provisions shall constitute a breach
of this recommendation, and that the sum of £100 shall be the
maximum penalty payable by any party or person in respect of any
such breach ; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of
penalty under or in respect of this settlement shall not exceed the
sum of £500.
9. That the settlement shall be for two years, from the 5th Octo-
ber, 1901, to the 4th October, 1903 (both days inclusive).
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 27th day of August,
1901. John Crewes, Chairman.
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(86) WELLINGTON FURNITURE TRADE.— RECOMMENDATIONS.
Under " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900."
Before the Board of Conciliation in the Wellington Industrial Dis-
trict. — In the matier of an industrial dispute between the
Wellington United Furniture Trade Industrial Union of Workers
and the Wellington Furniture and Furnishing Industrial Union
of Employers (Mr. H. Flockton, president, Manners Street,
Wellington); B. Brydges, Hawkestone Crescent, Wellington;
Max Kreissig, Willis Street, Wellington ; R. Digby, Kent Ter-
race, Wellington ; J. A. Hill and Co., Austin Street, Wellington ;
Kirkcaidie and Stains, Lambton Quay, Wellington ; Te Aro
House Drapery Company (Limited), Cuba Street, Wellington;
Robinson and Young, Taranaki Street, Wellington ; Yerex and
Jones, Victoria Street, Wellington ; G. Munt, Hanson Street,
Wellington ; J. Martin, Wilson Street, Wellington ; McHarrison
and Son, Lome Street, Wellington ; A. J. Packer and Son,
Riddiford Street, Wellington ; R. C. Renner, Tory Street, Wel-
lington ; C. Danbury, Tory Street, Wellington ; S. Soffe, Tara-
naki Street, Wellington ; L. P. Clements, Cuba Street, Welling-
ton ; W. Jupp, Willis Street, Wellington ; Wilkins and Field,
Manners Street, Wellington ; Bishop and Parsonage, Vivian
Street, Wellington ; H. North, Victoria Street, Wellington ; G.
Winder, Manners Street, Wellington ; Veitch and Allen, Cuba
Street, Wellington; J. Dormer, Molesworth Street, Wellington;
J. Johnston, Murphy Street, Wellington ; E. J. Pmny, Manners
Street, Wellington ; Spencer Piano Company, Manners Street,
Wellington ; Dresden Piano Company, Lambton Quay, Welling-
ton ; Carl Hajisen, Holland Street, Wellington ; T. Bearnes,
Courtenay Place, Wellington ; H. Haughey, Hawkestone Cres-
cent, Wellington; Hague and Hickman, Ghuznee Street,
Wellington ; A. T. Devenport, York Street, WelUngton ; A.
Asher, Ingestre Street, WeUington ; W. Heavey, Cuba Street,
Wellington ; J. and D. Andrews, Willis Street, Wellington ;
Bird and Co., Ebor Street, Wellington ; W. L. Robertson,
Adelaide Road, Wellington ; J. Hounslow, Jackson Street,
Petone ; P. Jansen, Lower Hutt ; A. H. Purser, Victoria
Avenue, Wanganui; J. Trussell and Co., Victoria Avenue, Wa-
nganui ; A. White, Victoria Avenue, Wanganui ; F. Dexter,
Victoria Avenue, Wanganui; W. Caiman, Victoria Avenue,
Wanganui ; A. H. Pyle, Victoria Avenue, Wanganui ; R. Robin-
son, Victoria Avenue, Wanganui ; R. Green, Ridgway Street,
Wanganui; W. Cumberland, Ridgway Street, Wanganui; Sash-
and-door Factory, Taupo Quay, W^anganui; W. M. Newman,
Tennyson Street, Napier; G. Nicholson, Emerson Street,
Napier; B. E. Ashton, Hastings Street, Napier; C.R.Allen,
Emerson Street, Napier ; G. Garnett, Hastings ; W. Kershaw,
Hastings ; W. Condor, Waipukurau ; T. Huggins, Waipukurau ;
A. H. Gordon and Co., Dannevirke; T. Bates, Dannevirke,
J. Eliason, Dannevirke; R. E. Grinilton, Woodville ; A. H.
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Baggerley, Carterton ; T. W. Foster, Carterton ; J. M. Mcintosh,
Masterton ; G. G. Eddie. Masterton ; Hartman and Hoar, Mas-
terton ; Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Master-'
ton ; J. Harrop, Masterton ; J. E. Montague, Palmerston
North; W. Pegdin, Palmerston North; T. Brant, Feilding ; J.
Darrah, Feilding ; W. Fades, Feilding ; N. G. Shearet, Feilding ;
"United Farmers' Co-operative Association, Feilding ; S. W.
Russell, Marton ; Signal and Cobham, Marton ; J. McChutney,
Marton ; W. S. Falconer, Pahiatua; T. Hamper, Pahiatua ;
W. Bird, Levin ; C. Broughton, Bull's; A. H. Wilson, Hunter-
ville; R. W. Smith, Mangaweka; J. Hubbert, Patea; H.
Fielder, Manners Street, Wellington ; A. Wedeger, Wilhs Street,
Wellington; J.Radford, Petone ; Macdonald, Wilson, and Co..
Lambton Quay, Wellington ; W. F. Shortt, Willis Street, Wel-
lington ; Sidey and Co., Manners Street, Wellington ; Fabian
Brothers and Co., Lambton Quay, Wellington ; W. H. Morrah
and Co., Willis Street, Wellington; Harcourt and Co., Lambton
Quay, Wellington; E. Arnold, Willis Street, Wellington;
Gumey Brothers, Willis Street, Wellington ; Weine Brothers,
Constable Street, Wellington — employers; and of a reference
thereof for settlement.
The Board, having heard the Wellington United Furniture Trade
Industrial Union of Workers by its representatives duly appointed,
and the Wellington Furniture and Furnishing Industrial Union of
Employers by its representatives duly appointed, and several of
the employers who appeared in person and addressed the Board,
and having carefully considered certain proposals submitted by the
representatives of the Industrial Union of Workers and by the repre-
sentatives of the Industrial Union of Employers, and other em-
ployers, and having carefully considered all the particulars of the
dispute, doth hereby recommend that the dispute be settled on the
following conditions : —
1. That forty-six hours shall constitute a week's work, made up
as follows : From Monday till Friday (inclusive) eight hours and a
quarter a day, and on Saturday four hours and three-quarters, to
finish at forty-five minutes past 12 o'clock at noon. Three-quarters
of an hour to be allowed each day for dinner, Saturday excepted.
2. That, except as otherwise provided in this recommendation,
the minimum wage for cabinetmakers, upholsterers, chair and
frame makers, and machinists shall be £3 per week, and for
polishers and turners £2 158. per week. Employers to find all
Eolishers' material, and upholsterers' work shall include all kinds of
edding, planning and laying of carpet, linoleums, &c. Wages to
be paid at per hour rate, and to be paid weekly on the employers'
own premises. Two hours* notice to be given on either side before
dismissal.
3. Overtime- work to be between the hours of 6 p.m. and
7.30 a.m. Time and a quarter to be paid up till 9 p.m. ; time and
a half from 9 p.m. until 7.30 a.m. Double time for Sunday, Good
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Friday, and Christmas Day ; time and a half for Easter Monday, the
reigning Sovereign's birthday, New Year's Day, Anniversary Day,
Boxing Day, and Labour Day. No overtime to be charged until
forty-six hours are worked, provided that the time lost is lost by the
employee on his own account.
4. That only two classes of workers shall be recognised — jour-
neymen and apprentices.
5. Apprentices shall serve an apprenticeship of five years, and
shall be indentured. Three months' trial allowed before indentur-
ing. Apprentices to find their own tools when finally indentured.
6. That all apprentices shall be paid for each and every year of
their apprenticeship as follows : First year, 78. per week ; second
year, 9s. per week ; third year, 13s. per week ; fourth year, IBs. per
week ; fifth year, £1 5s. per week.
7. That the proportion of apprentices shall be one to every three
journeymen or fraction of the first three.
8. For the purpose of determining the number of apprentices,
the number of journeymen to be taken into account must have been
employed by the employer in each department in which such shall
be taken for the preceding twelve months for at least two-thirds
full time.
9. No piecework shall be permitted.
10. That if and after the union shall so amend its rules as to
permit any person now employed in the trade in this industrial
district, and any person who may hereafter reside in this industrial
district, and who is a competent journeyman, to become a member
of such union upon payment of an entrance fee not. exceeding 5s.,
and of subsequent contributions, whether payable weekly or not,
not exceeding 6d. per week, upon a written application of the
person so desiring to join the union, without ballot or election, and
shall give notice in writing of such amendment with a copy thereof
to the employers, then and in such case and thereafter employers
shall employ members of the union in preference to non-members,
provided that there are members of the union equally qualified with
non-members to perform the particular work required to be done
and willing and ready to undertake it.
11. That any journeyman who is incapable of earning the mini-
mum wage prescribed in paragraph 2 may be paid such less wage
(if any) as shall from time to time be agreed upon in writing between
such journeyman and a committee to be composed of two members
of the Wellington Furniture and Furnishing Industrial Union of
Employers, to be elected by the said union of employers, and two
members of the Wellington United Furniture Trade Industrial
Union of Workers, to be elected by the said union of workers,
which committee shall have the right to elect their own chairman ;
or should they fail to meet, or, having met, fail to elect a chairman,
or come to an agreement within fourteen days, then such wage as
shall be agreed upon by the Board of Conciliation, if sitting when
apphcation is made by the journeyman, or, if the Board be not
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sitting, then such ^^age as shall be fixed by the Chairman of the
Conciliation Board. In any case permission to work for this lower
wage shall be in writing, and shall be for such time as shall be
specified in the writing. The secretary of the workers' union to
convene meeting of the committee, and conduct all necessary corre-
spondence.
12. That all travelhng-expenses and time when travelhng is to
be paid by the employer, who shall also provide and keep a suitable
number of benches, cramps, and glue-pots for the number of men
employed, also a suitable grindstone.
13. That no journeyman shall make goods for sale on his own
account while in the full-time employment of any employer.
14. That, as between the workers* union and the members
thereof and the employers' union and the members thereof,, and
as between the workers' union and the members thereof and each
of the employers separately above named, the terms, conditions,
and provisions of this recommendation shall be binding upon the
workers* union and upon every member thereof, and upon the
employers* union and every member thereof, and upon the em-
ployers and each and every of them ; and, further, that the workers'
union and every member thereof, and the employers' union and
every member thereof, and the employers and each and every of
them, shall respectively do, observe, and perform every matter and
thing by this recommendation required to be done, observed, and
performed, and shall not do anything in contravention of this
recommendation, but shall in all respects abide by and observe the
same. And the Board doth hereby recommend that the sum of
£100 shall be the maximum penalty payable by any party or person
in respect of any breach of this recommendation ; provided, how-
ever, that the aggregate amount of penalties payable under or in
respect of this recommendation shall not exceed the sum of £500.
That the settlement shall be for two years, from the 10th
October, 1901, to the 9th October, 1903 (both days inclusive).
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 31st day of August,
1901. John Crewes, Chairman.
(87.) WELLINGTON TINSMITHS.- RECOMMENDATIONS.
Under **The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900."
Before the Board of Concihation in the Wellington Industrial
District. — In the matter of an industrial dispute between the
Wellington Tinplate and Sheet-metal Operatives' Industrial
Union of Workers and the Wellington Tinware-manufacturing
Company (J. A. PHmmer, proprietor), Featherston Street, Wel-
lington ; T. Ballinger and Co. (Limited), 32, Victoria Street, Wel-
lington ; Ballinger Brothers, Waring Taylor Street, Wellington ;
I. Jackson and Son, Manners Street, Wellington ; E. H. Crease
and Son, Quin Street, Wellington ; W. and G. Turnbull and Co.,
Customhouse Quay, Wellington ; Nelson, Moate, and Co., Grey
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Street, Wellington ; Wellington Biscuit Company, Victoria
Street, Wellington ; Ramsay Brothers, Courtenay Place, Wel-
lington (trading as Taylor, Bamsay, and Co.) ; C. Martin, Tory
Street, Wellington ; Jenkins and Mack, Lambton Quay, Wel-
lington ; T. Garland, Taranaki Place, Wellington ; S. Danks
and Son, Brandon Street, Wellington ; J. Nicol, Lower Cuba
Street, Wellington ; F. W. Smith, Rintoul Street, Newtown ;
Wellington Gas Company, Courtenay Place, WelUngton ; J.
Adams, Mulgrave Street, Wellington ; Judd and Randall, Moles-
worth Street, Wellington ; James Bald, Napier ; Cooper and
Co., Napier; H. Williams and Son, Napier; Frederick Albrecht,
Woodville ; Herbert Beale, Masterton ; Charles M. Burrell,
Wanganui; William Beaumont, Wanganui ; D. W. May,
Wanganui ; Joseph Piper, Petone ; George Hardley, Lower
Hutt ; Wilkins and Field, Wellington — employers ; and of a
reference thereof for settlement.
The Board, having heard the Wellington Tinplate and Sheet-
metal Operatives* Industrial Union of Workers by its representatives
duly appointed, and having heard several employers who as parties
to the dispute appeared in person before the Board, and having
given proper opportunities for the parties to the dispute to offer
evidence if they desired to, and having carefully considered all the
particulars of the dispute, doth hereby recommend that the dispute
Be settled on the following conditions : —
1. That 46^ hours shall constitute a week's work, made up as
follows : Eight hours and a half on each of five days in the week
and four hours on Saturday. Ordinary timework on Saturday to
cease at 12 o'clock noon.
2. That only two classes of labour be recognised — ^journeymen
and apprentices.
3. That piecework shall not be permitted.
4. That, except as hereinafter provided, the minimum rate of
wages of journeymen tinplate and sheet-metal operatives shall be at
the rate of Is. 2d. per hour per man.
5. That all tools necessary be provided by the employer.
6. That any workman who considers himself not capable of
earning the minimum wage may be paid such less sum (if any) as
shall from time to time be agreed upon in writing between two
employers and the chairman and the secretary of the union ; and
in default of such agreement, as shall be fixed in writing by the
Chairman of the Conciliation Board for the industrial district upon
the application of such workman after twenty-four hours' notice to
the secretary of the union, who shall, if desired by him, be heard by
such Chairman upon such application.
7. That all time worked beyond the hours hereinbefore men-
tioned, each day to stand by itself, shall be considered overtime,
and shall be paid for at the following rates : From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
time and a quarter ; from 9 p.m. till 12 midnight, time and a half ;
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and from midnight till the hour of beginning work next morning,
double rates. On Saturdays overtime shall be paid for at time-and-
a-half rates from 12 o'clock noon. Work done on Christmas Day,
Good Friday, and Sunday shall be paid for at double rates. Work
done on all other recognised general holidays — viz., New Year's
Day, Easter Monday, the birthdays of the reigning Sovereign and
the Heir-apparent, Labour Day, Anniversary Day, Boxing Day —
shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half .
8. That all boys engaged in future to work at the trade shall be
indentured apprentices for the term of five years. Three months'
probation to be allowed before indenturing if required. All boys at
present engaged working at the trade shall, within one month from
the time for the coming into operation of this recommendation, be
indentured for the unserved balance of a period of five years if