INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 14

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS . [per press association.] WELLINGTON, April 28. Immediate investigation by the Associated Chambers of Commerce into the problem of unemployed young persons between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two who are unable to find employment because of the basic wage, is asked for in a resolution, which was adopted unanimously by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Members described the situation of unskilled non-manual type as acute, and calling for remedial action without delay. A report prepared by Mr. R. H. Nimmo, setting out the position, was adopted. It was suggested that a possible solution would be for the Government to amend the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, so that the Court of Arbitration, when making awards, could fix wages at differing levels, according to the class of trade or business concerned, at which basic wage became appliable. Mr. M. C. G. McCaul said that under the present legislation' a lot of young men were going to be forced into manual occupations, when they had ability to enable them to serve their country in a better way, by learning a trade or business.

DAIRY FACTORY EMPLOYEES.

AUCKLAND, April 27.

Complaints have been received by the Secretary of the Auckland Dairy Factory Employees’ Union concerning the refusal by the companies to pay the workers for their annual holidays. The dairy companies consider that they are not liable. The Union claims that the 1935 award .gives the men the right to holiday pay. The Auckland Union claims that their case is different from that of other dairy factory employees’ unions owing to a specific provision being made in the 1935 award.

N.S.W. BASIC WAGE.

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SYDNEY, April 27.

The New South Wales State Industrial Commission to-day increased the basic wage by 1/6 per week for males and by 6d' per week for females. The new rates will be: —Males £3/11/6 per week; females, £l/18/6.

U.S.A. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES

NEW YORK, April 27.

Mr. Roosevelt intervened to-day in a threatened strike of 25,000 employees in 11 major railway companies here. They are affiliated with the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, which, in turn is affiliated with the American Federation of Labour.

Mr. Roosevelt has appointed an emergency board to investigate the dispute and to make rceommendations for a settlement. Under the terms of the Railway Labour Act it is illegal for the union to call a strike within the next 60 days. The board will also study the controversy between the Clerks’ Brotherhood and the Longshoremen’s Association.