TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS
The hearing of the claim of the shipwrights and boatbuilders in the Auckland (including Gisborne), Wellington, and Otago industrial districts for a new award was completed in the' Arbitration Court today after another witness for the employers.had been hear-d. The claim was heard by Mr. Justice Hunter, associated with him being Mr. W. E. Anderson, (employers'-represen-tativc) and Mr. A. W. Croskery (workers* representative).
Mr-.., F;",]?.; Walsh appeared for i'the applicant workers', and Mri-Gv. H. Norman for .the employers. ;. :
The '.witness- called todayv said 'the-, employers objectedito paying., travels, ling allowance when the shipwrights; were not put to added expense .drji in-' convenience. Saturday work .wasj essential in the ship^repairihg industry,' he said, because without. Saturday work,the industry would'be inefficient.
In concluding the employers' .case, Mr. Nprman contended that Saturday work -was essential in. the ship-repair trade, but the employers would, agree to a 40-hour 5-day week for boatbuilders., .... ', v
Mr, Walsh .submitted, that the" employers had not proved that it was impracticable to work a 40-hour week.. The strongest argument against JSaturday work was, that scarcely any shipwrights had been employed at Saturday work for several months, i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 6
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