TRADE AND LABOUR NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 8

TRADE AND LABOUR NOTES.

(By INDtJSTBIA- TRAMP.) ■NION' MDE-INIGS FOB THB WEE—V ds iHJvenlng, October 12£-—oxilde—., Carpenter' Co-operative,- Labour Day Committee. : ' iday, October l*s--iinrie-*s. iturday, October ' 14—FlourmUlers, Typogi—_ieal. - . _, _ - ' cmday, October 16—Butchers, Plasterers, Cutter- and Pressers, Furuiture Trades, ednesday, October 18—General Labourers. NOTICE TO UNIONS. Brett's Almanac for 1917, is about to t to press. Each "year the Almanac -tains a directory of Labour Unions, ving registered name of union, place meeting, registered office, and name officials.. In order to make the direciry as complete and reliable as. possible, lion officials are invited to send parculars -mentioned as soon as possible •-"lndustrial Tramp," c/o "Star " Office, ■r inclusion. COURT DOINGS. Last week I attended the Dunedin sitngs of the Arbitration Court on behalf ! the Dunedin moulders, and on Tuesiy, October 3rd, was present at the irmal opening of the session. There as the usual list of compensation cases, § well as a fair list of disputes, for hich dates had to be allotted for hearig. All disputes in which a full or comlete settlement had been arrived at ere considered right away, and awards ere based on the respective settlements, thers, in which either' no settlement or partial settlement had -been reported om the Conciliation Commissioner, had ites set'down for the due consideration ' them. Several-were taken last.week, id others arc to be taken as late as :tober 19th. The moulders' dispute'was .ken on October 4, and as there had' en nothing settled, evidence was taken -aring on the whole application for an yard. Seven witnesses were examined i behalf of the union, and the evidence owed that the employers were already ying a large proportion of the workers t increase on the last minimum wage :ed by the Court. The Court had—in * last session in Aucklandwarded 1/6 per hour to journeymen oulders, and 1/3 per hour to machine oulders, and it was shown that many the Dunedin moulders were receiving c Auckland award rates, while a large umber of the machine moulders were itting as much as 1/4J per hour from c Dunedin employer's. When the emoyers opened their case, their reprentative asked the Court to consider ie inclusion of a clause which has been serted in the engineers' award of the ominidn, known as "the Stock Catague Clause." Tlie union protested -ainst this clause being inserted on the ■ound that no indication of their inntion to ask for the clause in question id been given in their counter proposs before the Conciliation Council. Also iat the " Stock Catalogue clause"' inirted in the engineers'" awards had most precipitated an industrial upiaval in the iron trade, to its r-reaching tendency to" reduce the ages of the higher paid man, who prbiced anything that could be-construed i part of an article or machine that aprared on a stock catalogue. The Court ■served' its decision. .-'-.".A COURT MENTOft. Recently in the South an employer was larged before a Stipendiary Magistrate ith a breach of the preference, clause, id the magistrate bad upheld the'con--ntion of defendant's counsel that in the reamble to the award- governing the idnstry, the name of the union was not entical with the name under which the 3 ion had been registered, and there was -•thing to connect the.two. The secrewy- of the Otago . General Labourers' nion, at the opening of the sessions of ie Arbitration Court in Dunedin on uesday week, took occasion to draw ie attention of his Honor to this very •rious omission, and asked him to direct ie GovenHnent printer to see that in iture the names of the union affected as properly set forth. The Judge Dinted out that the Court had no jurisictipn over an official in another departient and stated that it was often found iat unions named themselves : wrongly i filing their disputes. . Furthermore, is Honor pointed out that even a mistke in printing the name wrongly could ot affect a prosecution, for the official ocument was the award filed in the ourt. The. secretary who "posed as icntor to the Conrt, is a typical Irishian, and accepted the explanation, and as satisfied; but presently the tables ere turned on him, for -when he applied or an award for his union based on a ompletc settlement, his Honor pointed

out that the name of hie _lion bad been set for—i in the application made out by the applicant as "The Otago General labourers' Industrial Union of Workers", whereas the registered'name of the union appeared as "The Otago General labourers', Builders' Labourers, Quarrymen, and Coal-yard Employees' Industrial Union of Workers." "It seems, said his Honor, "you do not know your, own name;-the Court will have to put it right for you, or you may lose a breach of: award in conseqqence. -Do you apply for the error to be "Yea," aairl the applicant. "Very well," said his Honor. " In future you will haye,, to be careful to come .Here under y-eur proper title; the application is granted."' By this time the usually large audience. at. the Court opening .was simmering with - amusement at the plight of " the friend of the Court." The next case called was' for the same union, and was ; for a different section of labourers, also a complete settlement; but the laugh was loud aginst the advocate, when the Judge seriously pointed - out - that the -name of the union was entered up. wrongly, and not thefaalt-of the Gov-' eminent printer, either. "I presume you make the usual application to have the. name .of your union entered—cor-'----rectly?" said his Honor dryly. " Yes," answered the advocate, rather meekly. When the third, case was called for the same union, on behalf of another section, everyone in the Court smiled, audibly, except the unfortunate official, when the Judge pointed but .that the error was perpetuated. The point is to be noted by union officials that, in. filing a dispute, scrupulous care is essential in making out the citation to. have the correct name of the union.set forth, otherwise many a prosecution for breach of award" might fail, all because of culpable carelessness. ' AUSTRALIA AND (XJNSCMPTION. When an Australian newspaper de-,, clared some months' ago that the fight of the future in Australia would be between the policy of Labour and thesonality of Mr. Hughes, it spoke truer" than it knew. As the day of the conscription referendum draws near . the spirit of d'ssen—on, within the Labour movement grows, and'the spirit ot revolt among great bodies of wage-earni—'3 multiplies. Last week I referred to the expulsion of life-long adherents of the j Labour movement -from the official posi-1 tions and.from party. -This -week* thef "Australian WoTker" contains the intimation that : Mr. H. Lanxrod, over 20 years manager and part- of the time editor of the paper, has been relieved of his position' because of his support of conscription. Never before has so great a Labour movement been subjected to such a disintegrating experience. It Is literally rent in twain. One can easily imagine the life-long opponents of the movement reading • its funeral Service. But whip can say truly of the future? Maybe the Australian' Labour movement will be a second Phoenix.—The Hon. J. T. Paul, "Labour Notes." - ; A- INTERESTING CONFERENCE. The Workers' Educational Association (Auckland district) has just issued the official programme for ite educational conference,- -which will open in Auckland on October. 2L Tive paperg will be read,' and each' paper, will -;*be -followed- -by discussion. As the spirit of the gathering j will .be primarily ' educational it - will ''differ,from any previous'conference in ! which Labour- has taken; a * leading .'part. I The papers and the order in which they will be read "The History and Development of 'Trade Unionism,in -New Zealand" (Hon. J. *T. Paul), "The Effect of Industrial Legislation ,on Labour and Trades Unionism _ New Zealand". (Hon. George Fowlds), "Industrial Progress and Trades Unionism" : (Professor Grossman) ,". "Labour and Co-operation" (Dr. Mcllwraith), and -Worker and Education, with Special Reference to After-war Conditions" (Mr. E. K. Mulgan/.M_.)'. *-, _ ; CHRISTCHURCH FARRIERS. '■'> At the hearing of the farriers' 'dispute I at the' Conciliation Council an .employers' assessor claimed that if the wages asked by the Union were granted I there would be nothing left for an employer as a" result of his labour' and preparation in shoeing - and smithing. "The union ask; 1/B'.- per hour for a -fire-" man and' 1/6 Tor the floorman. Thne,"

consumed in wages alone in shoeing » , draught horse,-for it is admitted that it ■" would "ta-e an hour to make the shoes and shoe such a horse, —he cost of tlie- - . iron would be 3/6, and to that must bemadded the cost of firing, wear and tear'of.tools, dressing for feet, and the coat * of booking and -proportion of bad debfe.""'. The-prices ruling for supplying new sets ■ of shoes are as follow: Draughts, from " 8/''to' 0/; backs, ponies, and ; trade ■-> ,horses,,7/; pacers, trotters, gallopers, } and huntere, which require shoes -more or less of special type, from 9/ to £1. After, .a, consultation, at the Council it was agreed "that farriers should - receive ■ 1/4* an hour and floonnen 1/3}. „._*._.'..__ . " ' '■'.' Wolfe's Schnapps, represents the --, *-\ supreme tierfection of a distilled spirit.—(>-J-"» ' _ ==- - ,