FIREMEN'S AWARD

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 23

FIREMEN'S AWARD

A CHAIRMAN'S REMARK (Spatial to the "Evening Post.") I! . . PALMERSTt>N N., This Day. •i Eeference to the new award grant- : inj increased pay and leave recently made by the Second Court of Arbitration to cover" secondary Are brigades was made at the meeting of the Pal- ' merston North Fire Board last night. -Mr. L. Glover, secretary of the Wel- ; lingtoa'Fire Brigadesmen's Union, .was in Palmersfon North this week and conferred with the secretary of the ■'board, Mr. C. Day, on the new conditions. ) "Mr. Glover told me first of all that ' ": he was not going to engage in any * further publicity with the chairman of ■ the board, Mr. A. E. Mansford," re- i ported Mr. Day. "If he liked he could < make things awkward but he did not 1 •'. wish to enter into a political argument, s i ,He had admitted that they had obtain- t ;ed a very satisfactory award. They V were also quite certain that they would < not have obtained as good conditions t in Conciliation Council." a Mr. Mansford: You would not know in future whether it, pays to settle in J ! conciliation or go to arbitration. In c the past a medium somewhere between c '.: the employees and employers scales in a ;. claims was fixed, but on the last occasion other demands were slipped in in ( ;,; the Arbitration Court and before we ji knew where we were we had an j award, t