PLASTERERS' CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 12

PLASTERERS' CASE.

" LEGITIMATE CLAIMS/'

> PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT. v

Reasons why the plasterers had been represented at the meeting were explained by the president of the Plasterers' Union, Mr. L. Barker, at the condition of deliberations. He said that he associated himself with the protests voiced at the meeting and would take a general report on the proceedings to a meeting of his organisation this evening.

The reason why the plasterers were interested in the meeting was that their award hinged on the carpenters' award, lint, that was the only way it affected them. In most cases, added Mr. Barker, plasterers received payment for stis|>oiulo<l scaffolding and they also had a country work clause which wan mandatory and was generally regarded as oeinjt nearly satisfactory. So far as the pliisterera were concerned—and the same thin* could be said for other men in the building industry—there wae no attempt to embarrass the Government, but iim That 1 had *«*«■»■»• claim, and that the things they were asking for were cunta.ned in other awards