NEW AWARD REFUSED
NO DISPUTES CHEATED. RULING O F A HBITK ATI ON COURT. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day, Application was made to the Arbitration Court yesterday by the Canterbury Shirt (white) and Silk Workers’ Union to have the recently concluded industrial agreement made into an award by the court. Mr Roberts, for the union, said that the majority of employers employing the majority of workers in the district had signed the agreement. His Honour said that those parties who had signed the agreement were bound by it, but those who had not yet signed it were not liable under it, since no dispute had been created. Until they were joined to the agreement, an award could not be made. For the employers, it was argued that until the old award was disposed of parties not signatories to the new award would be bound by the old award. His Honour refused the application, as there was a danger, if it was gignited, of there being two awards side by aide in the same district. Both sides would now be free to get rid of the old award by creating an industrial dispute.
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Northern Advocate, 9 June 1933, Page 9
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193NEW AWARD REFUSED Northern Advocate, 9 June 1933, Page 9
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