ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 171, 31 July 1901, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

CHARGE AGAINST BELL AND CO. BUTCHERS WANT TO REGARD BOYS AS MEN. COMPLAINT AGAINST FIRM TRADING TO GISBORNE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. At the Arbitration Court it was intimated that the case against Messrs Bel! aud Co., of the match factory, for a breach of award, had 'been settled, the company agreeing to take back a girl who had been discharged, and not to discriminate in future against members of the Union. In the butchers’ ease the Court refused the application of the Union to extend the existing award by regarding a boy as equivalent to a man for certain kinds of work. An application by the Wellington branch of the Federated Seamen's Union for the enforcement of an award against Messrs Richardson and Co., of Napier, was withdrawn after it had been made clear that the grievance was not against the firm, but against a captain not now in their employ, and after the Court had expressed the opinion that for the purposes of the existing award the Wellington branch stood on the same footing as any other union. CASTING UP A YEAR OLD AFFAIR. Later.—The Arbitration Court to-day was asked by the Seamen’s Union to enforce the award against Messrs Richardson and Co., of Napier, on the ground that Captain Romeril," of the Toroa, had discriminated against a unionist seaman. The President said that ho did not think it wise to re-open old sores, the occurrence being 12 months’ old, and the case was withdrawn.