THE CLERICAL AWARD

Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 8

THE CLERICAL AWARD

APPEAL CASE TO QUASH CLERKSHIP NOT AN INDUSTRY [Pan United Press Association.] * WELLINGTON, June 29. Continuing the argument in the case of the Otago and Southland Stock and Station Agents’ Clerical Employees’ Trade Union, which is asking the Court of Appeal to quash the Otago Clerical Workers’ award and' declare that union invalid, counsel for the plaintiffs said that if a dispute arose between the members of a general clerical union and the employers it was very possible that when the" assessors were appointed a large number of the employers involved would have no real representation among the assessors, who, he said, had received' greatly increased powers by the 1936 amendment to tho I.C, and A. Act. Counsel added that with the various types of employers bound hy the award covering the General Clerical Union, there was very little likelihood of the employers’ assessors having knowledge of the innumerable industries concerned. The_ majority of tho employers would' bo in the hands of assessors in whose nomination they had had no voice, and from whose mows they dissented. Reference was also made to the T.C. and A. Act to show that the legislature intended that the term industry was to be construed in reference to- the business of the employer, not of the employee. The case is proceeding.