UNDER RATE WORKERS.
Trades' Council Protest.
Press Association,
Wellington, Last Night. The Trade and Labour Council dis. cussed the clause dealing with under rate workers inserted, in the award recently given by the Arbitration Court in the Nelson carpenters' case, and th* following resolution was carried unanimously :—« This Council strongly protests against the clause dealing; with under rate workers inserted in the Nelson carpenters' award by the Arbitration Court recently, taking power to grant or refuse permits out of the hands of the Union, thus making it possible for any person to gain entrance into a trade ia this way whether he is a carpenter or not. We consider it discloses a deliberate intention to flood trades with incompetent men and so lower the standard of efficiency and, in the long run, to reduce wages. Moreover th* clauses are a serious infringement ef tb* rights of unions and a direct attempt to destroy their usefulness."
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7970, 6 February 1905, Page 2
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