BREACH OF AWARD CASES.
! MINISTER APPROACHED. Complaints against the Labour Department's failure to take action in breach of award cases were made to the Minister for Labour (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) last night by a deputation of two members of the Canterbury Workers' District Council, Messrs G. T. Thurston and J. Roberts.
The deputation said that cases were known where the department had been asked to take action, but had failed to do so, presumably on the instructions of some authority higher than the local officer. This applied even to cases in which the breach had been proved in the Magistrate's Court and the magistrate had issued a ruling in favour of the union concerned. The burden of taking action in these cases had been imposed upon the unions, and they thought that the least the department could do was to see that the law followed its proper course. Mr Thurston and Mr Roberts made a protest to the Minister and undertook to submit a statement to him setting out the actual cases upon which their complaint was based. The Minister undertook to give the matter consideration.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 7
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