HEAVY FIXTURES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 289, 2 September 1931, Page 13

HEAVY FIXTURES

Arbitration Court’s Work CASES ACCUMULATE Long Wellington Sitting When making fixtures in the Arbitration Court yesterday, Mr. Justice lirazer, the president, said it looked as if the Wellington sitting would last about two months, concluding with short sittings at Palmerston North, Wanganui, Gisborne, and Napier in the last eleven days of October. The question was whether Parliament would sit long enough to afford tlie court some relief. The work had been accumulating largely, and the position appeared to be getting worse. His Honour also spoke of the number ot compensation cases waiting to come before the court, and said that it was unfair to injured workers that some of them should have to wait eight and nine months, and even longer, before their cases were heat'd. Some reference was made while the court was in Auckland to the heavy calls made upon it, which rendered it impossible for the court to get round the Dominion four times a year, as it was expected to do in accordance with the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Of late it had hardly been possible to go round twice a year. Suggestions were put forward in Auckland, one that a separate court should be set up to deal with compensation cases, and another that the industrial side of the Arbitration Court should be abolished in favour of a minimum wages board. It is understood that certain proposals in this direction are stiff under consideration by the chambers of commerce. , , .. The view was expressed by the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation a few days ago that the restrictions imposed <bv the Apprentices Act should be eased if boys were to be taken into secondary industries, and emphasis was laid on thfact that in'the past year Practically none of the youth of the country had been absorbed, in industries. Wellington Cases.

There are 24 applications to come before the court in Wellington for exemp tion from the general order making a ten per cent, cut m wages, but these constitute only a small portion of the work foi which fixtures were made yesterday. When the court sits to-morrow morning it will deal with some appeals against decisions of the Electrical Trades Apprenticeship Committee, and in the afternoon with an application for the exemption o. Salvation Army hotel workers from the private hotels award. There are lo Wellington diaims for compensation for injuries received during employment. On September 17 the court will deal with 15 applications under the Apprenticeship Act for compensation for loss of employment, the economic situation having compelled some employers to dispeiue with apprentices as well as aourneymen. Toward the end of the month and in October several disputes will come before the court, including the cooks and stewards waterside workers, bakers, shearers, and motion picture projectionists also several applications for interpretations of awards" 1 The question of firein attendance at theatres is also to S ei dis^s a ed e o n f,fs having been held over from the last Wellington sitting.

Fixture List. The following Is the ifst Of fixtures made 7 Thursday? September 3.-10 a.m.: SwinArmv application for exemption or its hotel workers from private hotels’ award. Friday September 4.-10 a.m.: Applicationsl by Wellington City Council linesmen, Electrical Linesmen's Union, and Llu.tr!cal Workers’ Union for exclusion from general order 10 per cent. cut. 2.15 p.m.: Dominion application Fire Brigades Union, exclusion from general order. . Monday. September 7.—10 a.m.. Labour ers’ application for exclusion from general ° r i’ucsday, September B.—lo a.m.: MeHerron v. Hansford and Mills, compensation. 2.15 p.m.: Hayes v. Wellington City Council, compensation. . Wednesday, September o.—lo ami.. Wilson v. Shaw, Savlll, and Albion Company, compensation. 2.15 p.m.: Hansford and Mllis v. Inspector of Awards (two ap--1 Thursday, September 10. —10 a.m.: Skone, Park, and Jones v. Hyde, three cases arising out of fire at Panama Hotel. 2.15 p.m.: Headlfer v. Wellington City Council, comSeptember 11.—10 a.m.: Painters’ Union, exclusion from general order. Tuesday, September 15.—10 a.m.: Fuller v. Samuel Brown, Ltd., compensation. 2.15 p.m., Radcliffe v. Canadian Knight Whippet Company. Wednesday, September 10.—10 a.m.: Macauley v. Golden Bay Cement Company, Ltd. Thursday, September 17.—10 a.m.: Fifteen applications under Apprentices Act for compensation for loss of employment. Friday, September 18. —10 a.m.: Walker v. Wellington Patent Slip Company; Corvin v. Isaac and Sous. 2.15 p.m.: Brown v. Albert; Waddell v. Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd., compensation cases. Monday, September 21.—10 a.m.: Typographers, Printing, and Allied Trades, exclusion from general order. 2.15 p.m.: Mawton v. Holm Shipping Company, compensation. Tuesday and Wednesday. September 22 and 23.—10 a.m.: Bakers’ dispute and exclusion from general order. Thursday, September 24.—10 a.m.: Shearers’ dispute. Friday, September 25.—10 a.m.: Walters v. Wellington Meat Export Company; Mitchell v. Standard Motor Bodies, Ltd., compensation. 2.15 p.jq.: Kirwan v. Paparoa Coal Company, Ltd., compensation. Monday, September 28, —10 a.m.: Cooks and Stewards' Union and Merchant Service Guild, exclusion from general order. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 20 and 30, October I.—>lo a.m.: Cooks and Stewards’ dispute. • Friday, October 2.—10 a.m.: Waterside Workers’ Union, exclusion from general order, and five applications for interpretations. Monday, October 5.—10 a.m.: Applications for interpretations Waterside Workers' Award. 2.15 p.m.: Cheese and butter factory workers, interpretations. Tuesday, October G.—lo a.m.: Mackenzie v. Westport Gravity Coal Co., compensation. 2.15 p.m.: Metal Workers’ Assistants' Union, exclusion from general order. Wednesday, October 7.—10 a.m.: Motion Picture Projectionists’ Union dispute. Thursday. October B.—lo a.m.: Applications to strike out Hutt and Makara County Councils from Local Bodies Labourers’ Award. Monday, October 12.—10 a.m.: Private hotels, licensed hotels, and tea-room workers. exclusion from general order. Tuesday, October 13.—10 a.m.: Municipal Dairy Workers’ Union, exelusion from general order. 2.15 p.m.: Woollen mills’ employees, City Council labourers, exclusion from general order. Wednesday, October 14.—10 a.m.: Oil

Store Workers’ Union; application to add parties, and exclusion from general order. 2.15 p.m.: Shipwrights, exclusion from general order. , Thursday, October 15.—10 a.m.: Tentative fixture motion picture projectionists dispute If not taken on October 7. Provincial Sittings. The Court has made the following provincial fixtures:— Palmerston North—October 19, 2.10 p.m. Wanganui—October 22, 10 a.m. ■ Gisborne —October 27, 10 a.m. Napier—October 30, 10 a.m. A snecial sitting will be held at Christchurch on November 5 and 6 for the freezing workers’ dispute, and the Dunedin sittings will commence on November 9. .