BUILDERS’ LABORERS
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WELLINGTON, last night. This afternoon the Wellington Conciliation Board filed its recommendations in the Wellington building trades laborers’ dispute. TJo Bo «£ recommends that 45 hours shall con stituto a week’s work, not more than hours to be worked on Saturdays. On other days the working hours shall be between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m , but in May, June, July, and Aug any employer may require his men commence work at 7.45 a.m., with only half-an-hour for dinner. A other times three-quarters of an hom shall be allowed. The minimum ra±e of wages for scaffolders is placed a •Is 4d per hour, and workers engaged in any other capacity are to receive not less than 1b 2d peq hour. Overtime is to bo paid at the rate of time and a half until 9 p.m.-, and at double rates thereafter. Youths are to. bo employed in the proportion of one to every four fully-paid laborers. Preference to unionists is conceded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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163BUILDERS’ LABORERS Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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