ENGINEERS’ DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 28, 27 October 1932, Page 10

ENGINEERS’ DISPUTE

Reopening of Conciliation CASE BEGINS ON FRIDAY It is announced that the Conciliation Council proceedings arising out of the Dominion engineers’ industrial dispute will be resumed on Friday. When the Ironmasters’ Federation representatives met the workers’ assessors in Conciliation Council early this month an adjournment was agreed upon with the object of ■ securing on the workers! side of the table, a Do-minion-wide representation of, engineers, boilermakers, and moulders. In the meantime a hold-up developed in Wellington. Following an announcement by the Patent Slip Company that henceforth the wages and conditions would be on a basis of the employees’ proposals, the employees at the patent slip and in other Wellington shops refused work on October 7. The employers made it known that they would, not consent to meet the Workers over the conciliation table until the Tatter returned to work. The unionists expressed their willingness to return under the former rates and conditions for the time being. Since the hold-up began various negotiations have taken place, but the action of the patent slip workers in resuming on Tuesday morning paved the way for an agreement to proceed with the dispute in Conciliation Council.