Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Shipwright's Working Rules and Price List - 1937 - 1959

Rule 19 dealt with the procedure to be adopted in case of dispute. There then follows some Memorandum on the following subjects :

Control of Apprentices - The period of apprenticeship was mandatory 'not less than five years, subject to a probationary period of six months.' No apprenticeship shall be continued beyond the age of 21 years, except in special circumstances.'

Working Conditions and Rates of Pay for Work on Oil-Carrying Vessels.

Annual Summer Holidays with Pay Holiday Credits. It stated : 'That commencing with the annual summer holidays in 1952, employees shall be entitled to two weeks annual holiday.'

Part II of the Shipwright's Working Rules deals with Docking Contract Rules but the sections dealing with work on a pontoon (or dry dock) which I find to be of most interest.