THE ARBITRATION COURT.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.]
ASHBURTON, August 31. A sitting of the Arbitration Court was hold here to-day. A firm of painters was fined £3 and costs for employing two apprentices to one journeyman. On the application of the Painters’ Union, two firms (who had not been included as parties to a recent awrd) were joined. There were three cases for breach of award against the Ashburton woollen mills for failing lo grant a yearly increase in wages. A fine of £s'was inflicted. For paying half rates on second loom the firm was fined £5, the Judge stating that it had not been proved there had been a breach, but it had been distinctly proved that thero had been a failure to make arrangement for two looms in the new mode of working adopted. Provision had not been made for the lower rate of working for the second loom.
A third case for increasing length of flannel without increasing rate of pay was dismissed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1906, Page 4
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