AWARD REFUSED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 140, 16 June 1933, Page 9

AWARD REFUSED

RIGHTS OF A SECTION A NOVEL POINT (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In a lesorved .judgment the Arbitration Comb refused, an application to-declare as an award an. industrial agreement between the Christeliureh Tailor6sses\, Presseis', and . 'Cutters' Union and the employers. - ; ■ The refusal waa made-because there is an award in existence, which is binding on pertain employers who are not parties to 'be industrial agreement, and because the' agreement could not supersede the. award until the latter, was cancelled. Tho judge said the special point the Court had to consider was a novol one. Tho term of the Canterbury. Shirt, White, and Silk Workers' Award had expired, but. it continued in force until a new award or industrial agreement was made. No dispute had arisen aince tho expiry, aiid no application to>. the conciliation' commissioner had been madcv The union of workers and a number of employers, who were parties to the award had entered an agreement under Section .28 for/the prevention, as distinguished from the settlement, of an industrial dispute, and those employers who were objecting to the present application were not parties to the agrceinent. Could such an agreement supersede an award o'£'th6 Court 99 completely as to have tho effect of cancelling it in. toto? It was noteworthy that the Act made careful provision for the safe-guarding of the parties to an industrial agreement from any interference with their rights thereunder by any subsequent industrial agreement entered into by some only of their numbers. The original industrial agreement remained in force in so far as the parties who did not exeeuto tho subsequent .agreement were, concerned.