LOCAL BODIES' LABOURERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL BODIES' LABOURERS.

, . J ■■>•-■■■■■-■■,. ■ ,-._.-,.;. THE PROPOSED AWA*»r : ? " appeal fob; 'Exemption. " The recent recommendations of ..t*§ ;•- Conciliation Council to the Arbitr»ti<». Court in connection with the local <**,;•;■■•, ies' labourers' dispute dp notfind favour? with the Waitemata County Coupe",;,, which body decided yesterday to »W*B'f-; . for an exemption 'at the sitting of we Court. [ v \ . ■;■ Reporting on the matter, the eij|j»**?-V£-stated that the Council had previouei? w . dqeided to-combine with the - Marmkau'and Franklin counties and contest thte dispute; but'it'had not ■V^]. : : h possible -to get the foiir counties »fr;A 'latefoby the Conciliation Court,, and.tMg .Council was now in receipt of a tent*-, ,'tivft agreement which had' been or«w? ; ■up and submitted to all the local cited for" their approval or.dtherwiee- , . Cijs'.mo.nting upon the agreement, n? . Btated that to agree to tlie prop**" . would necessitate all permanent surface*.; men becomrrig''members of the laboujt v union, which would render the Counaf and men subject to all the penalties at- > taching to unionism, and there ':<?■ continually be disputes" as to »«»» >■:. |the casual workmen" were liable **M?s'- : -- L ' the union or not. The wages proP (1/2 per.hour) were less in some stances and more in others than *" * ; Council was at present paying/ The «|- . Kineer recommended that should the . Council fail to gain exemption, tannic?: I case they would have to join the Gen«»t labourers' Union, it;-would'be Wt? r v for rural local bodies' employees toitppv for registration as a separate union. The cliairman (Mr. M, Lalng) e»»^;: I that the award imposed many hardwi?;'■ . ! upon the Council, and it would''be W*??. to go to the Arbitration Court and fig"" the matter out. • ~ Messrs. Cochrane, Oliphant, Hint «?? : ;. the cliairman were appointed ■ e^?".; -; mittee to consider the defence."to "j";' offered, the committee being empow«f* c to appoint one of its number to 6ent the Council at the eittin* of t M ■Arbitration Court. ........ i ': "" ■■ mm