PAYMENT OF WEAVERS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 6

PAYMENT OF WEAVERS

•p.A. CHRISTCHURCH, September 3. A declaration that the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company is, and since October 28, 1944, has been entitled to withhold 15 per cent, from the piecework rates of two-loom, weavers in terms of clause 7 (X) of the present award, made on June 18, 1945, by the Court of Arbitration, was made by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court. The declaration was in terms of a memorandum of settlement arrived at between the plaintiff company and the defendants, the Canterbury Woollen Mills, Knitting Mills, and . Hosiery Knitting Employees' Union and Hilda Dixon. The declaration stated also that the consent of the defendant, union to the declaration was without prejudice to its right to apply, in due course, for a new award with clause 7 (X) deleted. No order was made for costs. Mr. IJ. O'Shea, Wellington, appeared for the company, and Mr. M. J. Gresson for the union. His Honour said that having regard to the circumstances and to the. fact that the settlement brought to an end an industrial conflict which was prejudicial to both parties and to the community the Court was justified in exeri cising its discretion and issuing a declaratory order.