ARBITRATION COURT.

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1911, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

SITTING AT WELLINGTON. »Y TBLBGBAPH—PBB PBEBS ABSOCIATIOH.j WELLINGTON, This Day. In adding the parties to the painters' award to-day the Arbitration Court appended the following memorandum "where an award is made in connection with any trade or industry the parties to the award should be limited so far as possible to those employers who are engaged in that particular trade or industry. The employers named in this order are not carrying on business as Master painters. They therefore should not be added as ordinary parties to the award. They however are doing work from time to time that comes within the scope of the award and are employing journeymen painters. In these circumstances the proper course to adopt, in the opinion of the Court, is to add them as parties to the award so as to bind them to pay the wanes fixed by the award and also to pav for overtime and for work clone on" holidays according to the provisions of the award, but they should not be bound bv any other provisions of the award which, prima facie, are applicable only to employers in business as master painters." The Court adopted the same couise with regard to the builders and other similar Employers when dealing; with the boilermakers dispute m September last; That and the present case are to be treated as settling the practice of the Court with regard to aLI similar cases.