WAGE CUT
UNION’S APPEAL UNSUCCESSFUL. [PER press association.] WELLINGTON, July 9The first application by a union for exclusion from the operation of the Arbitration Court’s general order for a 10 per cent, wage cut will be unsuccessful. The union is the Canterbury Manure, Tallow, Acid, Soap and Candle-workers’ Union, which based its appeal on the special grounds of the casual and intermittent nature of the work, and the consequent low wage. Mr Justice Fraser says that casualness and intermittency of work are not necessarily special grounds, for a very large number of awards deal with trades and industries in which work is always casual and intermittent. He mentioned also that it is notorious farmers are finding it difficult to finance the purchase of manures, and it is essential that the price to farmers, and consequently the price of production, should be kept down. Mr A. L. Monteith dissents from the judgment, holding that the employment of. the workers concerned had been more casual since the general order became effective.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 2
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