BOOTMAKERS' DISPUTE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 7

BOOTMAKERS' DISPUTE.

BY TELEGRAPH—PEESB ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, May GL4. The Conciliation Board bad Taefore it to-day a dispute between the "New Zealand Federated Bootmakers' Association operatives and the Boot Manufacturers' Industrial Union of Employers, with regard to a demand for increased wages and a general improvemerit of the conditions of labor. The Court consisted of Mr Harle Giles (chairman),, and Messrs Hutchison and Barnes (Auckland), as assessors. Mr Prior, for the employers, stated that they were not prepared to go on . with the matter before the Council, objecting to it being only a local dispute, and they desired a dominion award. The mere fact that the Department had failed to have the new regulations iramedl and printed was no reason for the Department putting any bar to a reference being filed. He asked the Operatives' Federation to withdraw the present proceedings, and take steps to obtain a dominion award. Mr Whiting, for the operatives, def murred. ; Mr Prior insisting, the 'Court !adjourned till 4 p.m., with a view to enable a modified' claim to be brought by the Union.