PAINTING ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8809, 4 March 1914, Page 7

PAINTING ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

(Per Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH March 3. An interesting case of breach of industrial agreement came before, the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Nippert Brothers, painters and paperhangers, were sued by the Inspector of Awards f<»s-a breach of the industrial agreement with the journeymen painters by employing men ; <m Saturday afternoon. Counsel admitted the offence, stating that the. clause'm question was most anomalous, denying men the right to work! In this case the employers had a painting contract and had found it necessary to push on. The men worked voluntarily one Saturday afternoon and were paid. The time was long past when men could be denied the right to work. _ . The Magistrate remarked that the agreement was ill-considered. -The clause* should have been objected to long before. The painters' trade was peculiarly dependent upon the weather. ' The Inspector asked for a light penalty, but wished to make an example as employers were too prone to. treat industrial agreements lightly. 1 The Magistrate inflicted a nominal ; penalty, remarking that the clause was an anomaly.

1 • The next development will be ; the prosecution of the workmen".