CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 June 1939, Page 3

CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE

NO SETTLEMENT MEETING TESTER DY I United Press Association! WELLINGTON, This Bay. The dispute between the representatives of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, the General Labourers’ Union, and the employers is still unsettled, no improvement in the position being reported after the representatives of workers and employers bad met in Wellington yesterday. The spokesman for the unions stated at the outset that there was only one matter the union wished to be dealt with, namely, the question of payment for statutory holidays, and they demanded that a disputes committee be be set up immediately to deal with that question. According to a statement issued after the meeting the employers replied: “We will not set up a disputes committee to deal with statutory holidays, but we are piepared to set up a disputes committee at any time there is a dispute which comes within the jurisdiction of the disputes committee, as Laid down in clause 19 of tiie award.”

In explanation of their attitude, the employers stated that the question of payment for statutory holidays was referred to the Court of Arbitration, argued before tlvj Court and decided by the Court, and it was therefore a matter settled for the term of l lie award.

The employers then asked that the workers’ representatives should submit any other matters which were causing their members dissatisfaction so that they might be discussed, but the workers’ representatives said they would not submit anything except to a properly constituted disputes committee. The meeting thereupon terminated. A meeting carpenters and joiners will be held on Tuesday next.