ARBITRATION COURT

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 86, 11 April 1916, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT

■SITTING' AT BLENHEIM.

AGRICULTURAL LABOR.

The Arbitration" Court commenced ay. .sitting in. the Btenheim Cqurthouso-:' . thin morning. , /> ;. His Honor Mr Jiistjicc Stringer pre- ( sided, and with* him v.ere Mr W.'. fcJcott, employers' membeiy and Mr J.. A. McCuHough. workers' .member. . The crises first mentioned were the* /on© in Which the MarlbortHigh: Ajjjri--cultural and Pastoral Workers' UnioiK y,nd the Marlborozigh Tra^th'on-eugina and Machine Owners' Union--failed to> arrive1 at an agreement before > tho Conciliation Council in .regard' to tho. chaff- cutters" dispute, and the one in<. which the Kirac parties (the generalI.'1.' body 6v farmers also having been./ cited with the Machine ' Owners'' TTnion) had appeared beiore the Council with respect to the threshing-mill 1 hands' cljimv. Mr J. Towntnd, nith Mr C (Ti,^ndK'i, appeaj'""] for 'ho AVorkois' bmon: .uid .\lv D. Jod^ conductedi the tw ioi tliv 5 cnii)lovoi c Mi Jones oppc^jd tho ypplicationa foi .iwaids on tljt^giouii''K that no hajdship wai. imi<(^sc<l on The at ttif piosolit < 'u<fM3c} +be making ot uwaiids duiUK* tn^Sf „ \vould bo <letumental to the* goneiTvl indubtnal Hysi<;m. *Mi Town^nd contend :d that thepyni'ei* o 4 'rst stM^vW had not homo v)ut tlio rt*iticipatiiin that tho win would '.auao a «-hoil.iai' of asutuJlmal la hoi. ..aid sub-utiod that tli© Jcfcai Unioa-was entitled to. they levelling up. and uniformity of rates tliat weie secufed m other districts.. Alter" jsome , u jtargiiniflnt his^,sHSsnor' said that the Court m puldi • i»eseryo the qnestipn ns to whothei- an:,award? should bo made-. , ; It dfeT not hfiTo-- ' sofficimi) data to go on at the present i time, a-nd would hcsir ey\df!nce. , The •clK»jff-cut''ors >:' case' was then, taken. •• '.' ,■.'•:";:■■ *?.; --• ;■ ~■-•■;■■ - Mr'' Toivnsend oalJod sevci-alr witrnesses, ,a\ho . ga^ . evidence - t ,as to-: ■ivagias,' hours, and other conditions., Mr Jones* had called uyo witnesses-..; yyhoii the luncheon adjournment wasf. taken. ■"■■''■'','•' ''■ .'"''. •.. - ; ■