DRIVERS' DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 3

DRIVERS' DISPUTE

COURT'S STRICTURES

When the Arbitration Court sat yesterday morning to hear the general drivers' dispute, Mr. Justice Tyndall remarked that the Court had just been perusing the Conciliation ■ Council proceedings in the matter, which showed that 27 out oil 47 clauses remained unsettled. That, he said, appeared an unreasonably large number. It was the duty of the Conciliation Council to endeavour to reach' a settlement, and it was difficult for the Court to understand why a large degree of settlement had not been reached. In a number of recent disputes complete settlement had been arrived at in conciliation1 proceedings, and the Court could not see why in this dispute so much had been left unsettled. ! When the last award was made, con- J tinued his Honour, only six or seven clauses were in dispute: now there were: 27. The Court did not want to shelve its responsibilities in the matter, but he would suggest that the parties might confer again with a view to narrowing down what was in dispute. "NOT VERY CONCILIATORY." ■Mr. P. C. Allerby, for the workers, said that his side quite agreed that a greater degree of settlement should have been'reached. There had to be give and take on both sides, but he wgs bound to say that the other side had not been very conciliatory in its attitude. Mr. W. E. Anderson, Auckland, for [the employers, contended that nothing much had happened since 1940, when the last award was made, to wax-rant any major alterations in the award, yet the workers were asking that practically every clause should be revised •However, he was quite prepared to meet the other side again in an endeavour to reach a greater degree of settlement. The Court then adjourned to allow the parties to confer.