BOTH SIDES DISPLEASED

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 15

BOTH SIDES DISPLEASED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.l CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Dominion clothing trades award issued by the Second Court of Arbitration has not pleased 'either the employers or the workers. Since the provisions of the award were announced negotiations have been carried on with a view to approaching the Court to secure an amendment, but these have broken down and the award will have to be accepted as it stands.

A statement to this effect was made this morning by Mr. J. Roberts, secretary of the Canterbury Tailoring Trades Union, who last week visited Wellington in connection with the negotiations. "An attempt was recently made to secure an 1 amendment to the award," Mr. Roberts said. "It was felt by both parties that the award was not satisfactory, and accordingly negotiations were opened to effect a settlement that would be reasonably acceptable to both sides. However, those negotiations have failed and the award will now have to be accepted as it was issued. It is necessary for both parties to be unanimous when approaching the Court for an award amendment and we failed to reach that unanimity." Referring to the unsatisfactory conditions in the award, Mr. Roberts explained that the employers objected to the rates of pay given apprentices and improvers, while the workers objected to the rates set out for journeymen, which were less than the Arbitration Court pronouncement fixing the rate of pay for unskilled workers at 2s 4d an hour.