CARPENTERS' DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 51, 1 March 1921, Page 8

CARPENTERS' DISPUTE

CONCILIATION COUNCIL SITTING.

Further discussions in regard to the carpenters' dispute have not brought about a settlement. To-day, however, the question of framing a new agreement was being further considered at a meeting of the Conciliation Council, over which Mr. W. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner, presided. The proceedings were in committee, and up to time of going to press no statement as to progress made was available for publication.

Regarding the departure of men for country districts, Mr. F. Singleton, secietary of the Wellington Carpenters and Joiners' Union, spates that the union is applying coercion to none of its member* It was a fact that some had accepted a reduction in wages, but they were comparatively few.

An outcome of a meeting of the executive of the union last evening is a decision to adopt the guild system in the business of building or altering houses. Mr. Singleton stated that the union regarded itself as strong enough to make a start and compete successfully with the average contractor. The scheme would be on similar lines to that adopted in England, but otherwise no details were available.