Wages For Weavers
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A declaration that the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company is. and since October 28, 1944. has been, entitled to withhold 15 per cent, from the piecework .rate of two-loom weavers in terms of Clause 7 (K) of the present award made on June 18, 1945. by the Court of Arbitration, was made by Mr, Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court. The declaration was in terms of a memorandum of settlement arrived at between the plaintiff company and the Mills, Knitting Mills and Hosiery Knitting Employees’ Union and Hilda Dixon, The declaration stated also that the consent of the defendant union was without prejudice to its right to apply in due course for a now award with Clause 7 (K) deleted. No order was made as to costs. Mr. J. O’Shea, of Wellington, appeared for the company, and Mr. M. J. Gresson for the union. His Honor said that having regard to the circumstances and the fact that the settlement brought to on end an industrial confiflict which was prejudicial to both parties and to the community, the Court was justified in exercising its discretion and issuing a declaratory order.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1945, Page 3
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195Wages For Weavers Northern Advocate, 6 September 1945, Page 3
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