WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16569, 5 June 1914, Page 8

WORK AND WAGES.

DEFAULTING UNIONS. LABOUR DEPARTMENT’S EXPLANATION. ( [From Our Correspondent.] WELLIN’ GTON, June 4. Publication of tho Labour Department’s notice of the proposed cancellation of the registration of several Christchurch unions having resulted in explanations accompanied by protests, these were brought under the notice of Mr F. W. Rowley, secretary to tho Labour Department. He said that the statements inn do 'were incorrect, and proceeded: “In two of tho three cases namely, the Journalists and the Metal Workers’ Assistants, the societies which have failed to send in returns and which it is therefore proposed to cancel are not the industrial unions of workers mentioned but are industrial associations of workers, that is to say associations comprising unions. The third union, namely the Hairdressers’ Union, states that it has forwarded its . returns and further that it has not received any notieo of having failed to do so. A very complete check is made by tho Department. No returns have been received from this union and a notice was sent to it together with notices to other unions calling attention to the fact. The notieo now gazetted is therefore merely, a six weeks’ public intimation of intention to cancel unless it is in the meantime shown that the societies referred to are still in existence. If the Hairdressers’ Union named is still in existence it will no doubt bo able to satisfy the Department on the subject.” CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION. [Per Prisb Association.] WELLINGTON, June 4. The Registrar of Industrial Unions announces in the “Gazette” the cancellation of registration of the North Wellington branch of tho Amalgamated Society of Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Industrial Union, also the New Zealand Flour Millers’ Co-operative Association Industrial Union of Employers.