MASTER BUILDERS AND PLUMBERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 10

MASTER BUILDERS AND PLUMBERS.

$ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) \ Auckland, October 14. . An agreement, arrived, at between the', : Plumbers'- Union ofworkers and ..tie. Master Plumbers' Association, was. sub-./ mitted to-day y to . the Arbitration Court for conversion into an award. The ■ Master. Builders' Association,-.- for : < -. whom Mr. S. 1. Clarke appeared,; objected that the agreement. made wasir- . regular, and unfair, and. amounted to ;j : nothing more nor less than , a conspiracy . between, . the ' two union's. Sir. ( larko went on-to say that; in : the . existing ' award, members of theißuilders'.Associa-v; tion had ,been v cited in the -present"move- U- : ~~ . ment. ; The Builders' Association had. been absolutely ignored, 'ft-, was recog-// \ nised. as a riifht, the world over,' that' : builders-had the liberty: of employing plumbers or.'- members .of -.other.-:branches of the.building, trade, and the. right had,v~f'. never, been disputed up till the present. A preference -clause;'; was ;:.nov* -proposed, v. preventing a .plumber from, working for , a member of :the. Builders' Association- ' or anyone outside of the': circle'- of'" tho Plumbers' Association:: : under..the liabil-' ity of .an .action for b'reacli 'of award- ■: A mutual/preference clause;was: contain.-/:-: ed in the existing award, but the Build-,, ers- Association -would have'- taken strong ■}.'_/ ' exception'had. they been awaro' -_of "tho'' intentionVto insert' V.! . provision.- : t His:: association; :objected -to. judicial and. adxninistrative'.'jiowers: being', placed in the. haiids.of- mdn utterly- iinfit to ; exercise'/'such powers/'.-The. Builders' J '.' Association employed' a 'largo number- of .. men .in the' various /branches .of,- ; - the trade, . and, '■• if all claimed: similar -y ference, the, : position^developing would be. " one' of: chaos. - As Vi' responsible body of ' men the ; association:. .claimed ' tho i : right v." to do all plumbing .work on a buildin'g i£,: ? they, chose. * :_i • -v--'' Considerable discussion...ensued as: to what is plumbing work,; and as: to' what'. - - ;j' builders- iil'ay:,,undertake, ■ and -whether tho.' 'terms, of /the' agreement: are ,unfairto';.. ?. •

vTheVCo.nrt' wiiiyMn'siderftKe. matter, and will'deliver an award. > ''•