FREEZING HANDS' CLAIMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 6

FREEZING HANDS' CLAIMS.

■*— ——- ■. ■ ' '' # f. EXEMPTION FROM ORDER. ——— ' '•* CONDITIONS IN WELLINGTON f [BY TELEGBAPH. —PHESS ASSOCIATIOK.] ;iWELLINGTON, Tueed*y. |§ In the Arbitration Court, on behalf e? the Freezing Workers' Union, a nriolw |/;i of applications were made to-day for m emption from the genera! order of tha v Court, particularly that there should ta no reduction, either on a percentage •/? basis or on a flat rata. V Mr Justice Frazer said simihr appli»: f rations made by other unions had beeft withdrawn. The general intention of tlw Court "as that skilled workers in «#-■;< industry should receive wages ever ,ihm , of a general labourer at the ratio prfr • vailing in 1914. *• The union representative argued ÜBp '■ ihe rate of wages should be higher: in the Wellington district than in the Sooth Island, where work was done at an . hourly rate. The effect of th(* order at Ohristchurch would be that the total \ reduction since November, 1921, would lis over £l a week iq the case of j il Blaughterrnen, 12s lOd for freezers, and •Is lid for general hands. Mr. Grenfell asked for an opportnnity. to consult the employers in the district hefore jaresenting a reply to the Court. An adjournment was made to a date to be fixed. '