ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 8

ARBITRATION COURT.

■US' TEI.I"GKiPiI--rRESS Association - .) n.. ■ - i P'mcdin,. February .v ,r?rl ,c n- Al ', b,lrallP . n 9 0 " 1 ' 1 ' sat. to-daT.' SfrM Cullotwh, .workers . represen htivo, ' sitting for the first time, Mr. ; Pryor, depu'tv, re P escnM Hie employers. • ■ ' 1 1 The•pmiedin. Pork and Poultry Comnnmwas finc-d £2/ for employing C. Miner a! smnfl goods b'utcher; .it, less than the award rate o wages. Miner was Sued in costs for nccealintless than the statutory wage. P nn S, ' J. , Webster was-proceeded ..against for empl°yinK a journoynian upholsterer on p ,™e work. The Court upheld,, Hie contention that the " aS 9ne:Qf; * ?tln6 a - hd <lis, "S .-A charge against 1)./Robertson 0 f emnloving two apprentices indentured to sign-writing ill., the ordinary work of painting was missed,, bat the Court directed the inspector to prosecute, for inadequate payment of wa EC « In the. caw where Henderson, ai,d; Grey, ifrnc burners (Milburn), were, charged with 'paving under rate wages, the decision, was reserved J)or a.breach of the UakeiV Award bv J H Chalmers, ;j conviction was . recorded'. 'n* Millirrau, ot Oamaru,- was 'ch'nnrotl «.:*]. ' breach -of the Tailors'. Award bv eniplovin" too many apprentices. The dcforice'vaV tiVJ? the respondent could not get ..hands.' He was fined .£3 and Court costs'.- T. J! Gibh nf Oamaru, was ■•ehnrged.' with a -breach of'the linkers Award. . breach was - proved ami l the case was dismissed. The; Court had no poiver to give costs •;against ' the' inspector Irvine and Stevenson,were cited.for an alleged breach, or .the Butchers' Award, by. not paving he - first small ; soodsmnn the award whses iiie Court decided that. Hie man was u second'- baud and Ihe . case >si dismissed