ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT

A 10 PER CENT. BONUS. [Per United Press Association.] WANGANUI, April 3. The Arbitration Court made an important pronouncement to-day that is likely to have Tar-reaching effects upon the employers and employees of the Dominion, in a memorandum to the builders' laborers' award. While, declining to grant a permanent increase of wages to ijhe workers during the war, the Court grant, owing to the high cost of Jiving, a 4° P ei * cen '" t - bonus to laborers during the war and three months afterwards, reserving the right to review their decision should the circumstances improve or become Worse. The Court suggested that employers Generally might consider granting a similar bonus. General satisfaction is expressed by Mr Reardon, representing the laborers, with the pronouncement. My Pryor, representing the employers, also expressed satisfaction. He thought the employers wonld do their duty, and expressed tue hope that the- award would result in sottling the industrial- unrest and tho woollen mills' trouble.