ARBITRATION COURT. "BANK TO BANK."

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT. "BANK TO BANK."

[BT TELEGRAPH— TIJESS ASSOCrATIOII.I OHIimTCHVRCH, 17ih Dccomhrr. Tho Arbitration Court gavo judgment to-day m a,caso in which the Wuslpoit Coal' Company charged (he Dennislon Coal' Workers Union with having committed a breach of iho award by inducing' members to vcfueo to abido by Clause 16. Tho award provided {hat the men should he at the face for eight hours. The union was of opinion that tho Coal Mines Act of 19u7 had established the "bank to bank" principle, ,and hud reduced their working hours accordingly. .The court held that tho union h*d committed a breach of (ho award, but tho union office- s had acted under a bona-ikle misapprehension Ko fine would bt> inflicted. Tho union mubt abnlo by tho terms of tho award, and any further breach would havo to bo sevevoly punished ,aud the union was ordered to pay cofcts. CANTERBURY DISPUTES CHRISTCnURCII, 18lh December. I lie Arbitration Court has made ;..\vaids in tho Canterbury currion, 1 aiu'l bontimkGiV deputes. In Iho first t'uso it v provided thai. Die week's work t-liall eoneict of 48 hours; overtime, tinio and ai quar-' lor for tho first two hours, lime and a half aflor thai; wages to bo Is 2d pur hour, and liio rogulat holiday? to' bo recognised The employers «ro to find all tools. Onu unskilled worker is to bo allowed to every six or fraction of six curricis. Apprentices not lo "xcend one to each three or fraction of tho first throe journoj men ; preference- lo be given lo unionists. In the bootmakers' rismtto if, W as p,- o . Vicled that tho a,,axd J,JI nm ,l y to \ lia flicking, making, finishing out, Bolc-out-tiiiff, and repairing departments, prefri-.-iioo lo ho given lo unionists! ; lioiii'h of woik (unh">s mutually arranged) to he !><<- Uvim-h 730 a in. mnd 530 p.m.. on fivu day of tlit' week, aud from 7.u0 a in. to 11 45 a.m. mi tho recogiii'.otl Inlf-lioliitoy ; wagoii Id lio not lens than 1>- per hour; an I'inpliiyiM* lo be permitted to employ his hands for part of a day, l>nl lor noi U--.S th*n loiif liuiiim iippiViituvb ill. (lie rato of one to every Hiiro or furl'ion of Ihreo nie.n m I'io oliekni'j; department, in the mskiug ami lep.unan ('.onaitmeni' ono to four ; tlio provisions of the award