CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 6

CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE

Action By Labour Federation union Offered support (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. After hearing representations from the New Zealand Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union to-day, the national council of the New Zealand Federation of Labour instructed the national executive of the federation to take steps to achieve a settlement of the dispute over carpenters’ award conditions through all available avenues of negotiation and conciliation. Although not officially announced, efforts are being made to arrange for a sitting of a tribunal under the Strikes and Lock-outs Regulations, conditional upon a return to normal relations between the employers and workers in Auckland, and agreement on both sides to accept the decision of the tribunal. So far, however, no indication is available whether the parties in Auckland will agree to these conditions. Asked to-night whether steps were being taken to set up a tribunal, the Minister of Labour (Mr A. McLagan) said he had nothing to say. The Carpenters’ Union announced that it had received to-day from the national council of the Federation of Labour, a copy of a resolution the council had adopted, declaring that, if necessary, it would give its moral and financial support to the Catpenters’ Union by recommending its affiliations to support an appeal if the employers carried out their threat to lock their employees out