LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
OVERTIME.
[To TIM EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Ernest Hooper, writing from? Gateshead Fell Rectory, Gateshead-on-Tyne, in the Spectator- of March 24th, states that, by the rules of the Trades-Union, no one connected with the engineering trade is now permitted' to work overtime. He writes from incorrect or partial in- formation. In the rules of the Amalgamated Society of' Engineers for the London District, it is laid down that,— " Nine hours constitute a day's work ; overtime to be paid for- at the rate of not less than time and a quarter for the first two
hours ; after that, time and a half That the rate for- night shifts be not less than time and a half " There is no regulation against working overtime, and the' sole limit set by the Union is, that though the men may work' from 6 a.m. until 2 o'clock on the following morning, with- the usual allowance for meals, they must in that ease eease- the next day's work at 5 p.m.—I am, Sir, Sic., Mscaamc.
[Our correspondent encloses the printed regulations of the, London District Committee of the Society of Engineers, dated 1890. The second of these regulations is,—" that nine hours constitute a day's work, overtime to be paid for at not less- than time and a quarter for the first two hours ; after that,. time and a half ; each day to stand for itself."—ED. Spectator.]
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