ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Star, Issue 17368, 2 June 1920, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT

THE DUNTDIN SITTING. Tho Arbitration Court—His Honor air Justice stringer (president), Messrs W -Scott and J. A. M'Cuhough-opened their sittinhero yesterday. DISPUTES. Plumpers and ga slitters (partial agreement; was fixed for hearing on Monday next. ■' Tinsmiths and sheet metal workers (no agreement) to be heard after the en-ineers' dispute. ° Metal workers' assistants (partial ment) was fixed for hearing after the = tinsmiths and sheet metal workers' dispute. Oamaru paaniors (complete recommendation) was held over until next Mondav to give the employers an opportunity of bein" represented. ° Boilermakers and iron Jtipbuilders, 'iirniture trade, iroi and brses moulder*,' cargill retail soft goods, coach workers aiul wheelwrights (all complete rccraiiuieuuations) were made into awards. APPLICATION TO ADD PARTIES. _ Applications to add: parties were granted in the furniture trade, shirt, white, and silk workers', dressmakers and imlhnorts', and varehousemen's disputes. APPLICATION TO AMEND. An application was made by tho Musterers Packers., and Drover* "Union to amend their award.—Mr Cooksou contended that the Court had no jurisdiction to hear the application. It t was not made for the purpose of remedying a defect.—Mr MacManus (for the union) said tho point was that a. niusterer was nev:r engaged by the week.—Tho President said that tho Court had prescribed what they intended in the clause in question, and they therefore had no jurisdiction to amend. The application would be refused. APPLICATIONS FOR BONUS. Applications to emend awards by granting increased bonuses, in accordance with the Court's recent pronouncement, were granted, in the following Invercargill matters:—Wool, grein, asxb manure stores' employees and painters and decorators. Other similar applkaidoHß from the same district were held over fox consideration. The Court then proceeded to consider a large number of local applications of a like kind. In most cases consideration was deferred. When, the factory tailoresses' application came up Mr Paul asked whether, in. \-iew of the Court's pronouncement at Gisborne, they would alter tha basic wage for this industry.—THie President: "We did not have this special class of tailoresses in our mind at the time."—Mr Paul: " But thsre are also the skilled male workers, cutters, and pressers."—The President said the Court would consider the matter of readjusting tne basic wage for theso workers.