OUTSIDE LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 137, 13 June 1927, Page 3

OUTSIDE LABOUR.

GROCERS EMPLOY PAINTERS. i'OIXT FOR ARBITRATION* COURT. \\ hether a firm of grocers who employed men on painting work, and failed to |>ny them the minimum award rate of wages could be considered as subsequent parties to the New Zealand pain'ers and decorators' award, was a question argued before Mr. Justice Fra/.?r iu the Arbitration Court at Wellington. Mr. R. T. Hailev, who appeared for the Labour Department, said that the practice was growing, the latent breach having occurred in Auckland. Within the last month eight distinct breaches had been reported. His Honor said that if the Court came to the conclusion that the section of the Act referring to the employment of workers for direct or indirect pecuniary gain did not affect the position seriously, and that the judgment of volume book of awards, to the effect that persons not engaged in the industry could not be considered subsequent parties to an award, was sound, then he suggested that the matter should be placed before Parliament. The Court would have to work on the material in its possession. It was bound by that judgment in volume 5, unless it found something in a later section which enabled it to make a distinction.