PRINTERS’ DISPUTE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 275, 2 September 1936, Page 3

PRINTERS’ DISPUTE.

COMMENT BY EMPLOYERS, (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, September 1. Interviewed regaining the jmotion carried asking the Alinister of i-abbur to arrange a conference with the employers in the printing trade, the secretary of the Alaster printers’ Federation (Mr Clarkson) and the secretary of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association (All* Berry) stated that there was not the slightest reason for such a motion. The employers had at all times been willing and ready to meet the employers’ representatives. In fact, conciliation proceedings had been adjourned by mutual agreement between the employers’ associations and the Workers’ Federation, pending the court’s decision on the hours question. Those proceedings could be resumed at any time suitable to parties, probably early next week would be suitable in view of the fact that representatives of both parties had to come from distant parts of the Dominion. The action of the workers in ignoring the law and a stop-work meeting dislocating the work of the establishments came as a surprise to the employers in view of the undertaking of both employers and employees to accept the decision of the Arbitration Court in regard to hours of work.