BELFAST DISPUTE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 10

BELFAST DISPUTE

DECISION OF CHAIRMAN. (E.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, .May 30. “Thero shall Ijc no stoppage ot work” is the fourth and final clause in the decision of Air Gilmour, S.M., in his judgment for the Emergency Disputes Committee set up under the Strike and Lockout Emergency Regulations to investigate disputes between '1 homas Bortlnviek and Sons and the Belfast branch of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union. Pending the committee’s decision work was resumed on May 20, the slaughtering chain, which was concerned in the dispute, including the two men originally selected by the company. Evidence and argument were heard by the committee and at the conclusion of the hearing, members of the committee being unable to reach unanimity on the matters in dispute, agreed to leave it to Mr Gilmour, as chairman, to make the committee's decision. After full consideration of the evidence* and the argument submitted, Mr Gilmour has come to the following decision :

“(a) That work on the remaining chain shall continue as at present. ‘‘(l>) That when a chain is put ofT because of slackness a list of the men selected by the management to man the remaining chain shall be made available to union delegates and the management shall give consideration, as in the past, to any representation made in that behalf by delegates. “(c) That the foregoing decision, however, shall not be construed so as to prejudice the rights of the management under section 2 of the award, it being .understood that the management shall have full power, subject to the provisions of the award, to engage and dismiss such workers as it thinks fit in the circumstances.

“(d) There shall ho no stoppage of work.”