GENERAL LABOURERS" AWARD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 4

GENERAL LABOURERS" AWARD.

1 1 , EXEMPTION 03® HAWKE'S BAY , ,WIEEZING,COMPANIES. (pY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS :"... . . . ' Napier, Anril'24. At the' sitting of the; Conciliation Board * this morning l some time was t'akon up ill cousideration of by H. G.Warren , asking on behalf of the freezing companies , of Hawke's Bay for exemption from the gen- , 1 oral labourers' award. llt was urged that a i Uflion had" teen»■; formed >of' omployoqs; of - freezing companies with the vjew- of.arriving , . ■ at \an agreement covonng. tho vhole of the workers-employed Iso • as: .to. save, a number of . different awards, The application , was ' oDposed by M. -J.'Reardon; secretary of 1 thoi ! Wellington General' Labourers'/-Union, ■ on tho ground that the Hawke's Bay Freez- , mg AVorkors' Union was a , bogus ono, formed-s ' : at 'the -jristigatioii 'of" employers.;. f It- ■$ ; stated that the majority of workers employed A , . were not m the-Union, and this drew, the remark from Mr.'i H.i Inniss,.'a 4 member of tho ■ Board, that this was not unusual, as tho . majority of the - workers were outside air the unions , • ■ Mr. /Cooper: That is open to quQStion. , ■: Tho Board decided to.'grant exemption, ... . the Chairman (Mr. P. J. Ol'Regan) stating , that 'this was the- viow of the .majority of the Board : The Board, after'hearing evidonco ( \ ad- ■ lourned to meet at Wellington on AYedne&v . day