AGAINST A STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 302, 21 December 1926, Page 9

AGAINST A STRIKE.

GLASSWORKERS AT PENROSE. I RESULT OF SECRET BALLOT. Of the 65 members of the Glassworkers' Union employed at the Penrose glass works, all but one voted yesterday on the question of whether they should strike or accept the present wages for a further term. Two votes were informal and, of the valid 62, there were 43 against a strike and 19 in favour of it. The ballot was an unusual one in that it was conducted by the Registrar of Industrial Unions. Under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, where a union of workers not registered under the Arbitration Act ha 3 a dispute with an employer and a settlement cannot be arrived at by the parties, the Registrar is empowered to take a secret ballot of the workers. The dispute between the workers and the Australian Glass Manufacturers' Company is mainly about wages, and, though the ballot yesterday decided against a strike, the secretary of the union, Mr. J. Purtell, contends that the result does not mean that the workers are satisfied with the present wage of £4 2/6, which the majority receive, and which is only 1/6 above the Arbitration Court's minimum.