SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23330, 16 May 1941, Page 8

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

* —- : : -«;■ MINISTER'S VIEWS METHODS if X' BELFAST WORKS STOPPA<*I - f r 1 ! :• “The only thing I can say, ing the facts as I have Wellington only this eveninfcflfvMfc want to see ah workers working,J|JJ Minister for Labour <the,H«!Mgg Webb) said in a telephone with "The Press” last nighfon tude on the stoppage of kiumrMS Belfast works of Thomas and Company (A’asia,), Ltd. o. JJS ever the interests, they snOJuMS through the proper channel tdtnKfjj putes committee. Everything be done on a constitutional * Whether that has been done, i know.” ,Si For the third day, no done yesterday. Negotiations between the Labour company representative Wells) and the union secretary O. Kilpatrick), who returned P'-gp church from Timaru in the No progress towards the settJWE of the dispute was reported, botn,|E expecting that the attitude of later would be made known prjWgg No work is likely to-day, the cpfflM remaining adamant that it accept the terms on which me ww* termen would work. . Three men yesterday v ‘ s , Sap Works in response to the call n»|S| labour. The company's ofnciau»g|g men were not engaged as labour was offering to man the union report was that wpgM men found that the being invited to fill vacancies dispute was in progress tney to accept employment.