LENGTHY DISCUSSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 134, 9 June 1939, Page 11

LENGTHY DISCUSSION.

GOLD MINES AWARD.

NO AGREEMENT REACHED. (By Ti'lojrrapli.—lToss Association.) WE r.LI X<; TON. Tii iirsda y. After lengthy discussion in an endeavour to reach a common basie of collective, barjraininji in widely differing northern ami southern claims in the Cold Minos Federation employees' dispute ii.i agreement was effected and the parties decided to adjourn to a date to lie fixed later. An indication had been jriven by the Court of Arbitration that it preferred the parties to reai-h a nonunion award ratlier than separate awant for the north an.! south, and the <li.~>-u~-ions between the part if* centred round the pri-~i!ii]itii'< of aeinevintr tlii<. The major ditlii-nliv. however. wa< the fart that the privilege* enjoyed l»y each di.-trict liinler the di-trict award* differed ;.. a ureal dejiree. At. in-day's r*e-«ioii Mr. T. 0. Bidiop. empli>yei>" ajrei.t. presented a new sehe<lule covering both the northern and Westland district* compiled from the respective claims and dealing only with miners' conditions and wanes, not touching on the engineer.*' or carpenter*' sect ion. Mr. .T. Roberts, tor the workers, said that the schedule was not what they had expected in certain directions, and there were things in it which they could ! not accept. j After further dw.ussion the parties i ngreed to adjourn to a date t<i be tixed later.