NEW BOOT TRADE AWARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18532, 17 October 1923, Page 10

NEW BOOT TRADE AWARD.

CLASSIFICATION QUESTION.

SUGGESTIONS BY COURT

■ [|Y. TiLEGBArn.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. . .-'-; In a memorandum to the Arbitration Court's award in the \ New Zealand Federated Boot Trade dispute, filed today, Mr. Justice Frazer said the principal matter referred to the Court was the classification of. operations, which had been agreed to in the past before a conciliation council. In view of the importance of having a scheme of classification thoroughly investigated, the Court had hesitated .< to adopt the employers' scheme, the . only one. submitted, to it, and for that reason had renewed, with a few amendments, the existing award. " The Court states that it wa3 satisfied that the hoot manufacturing industry was one to which classification could be applied, and for that reason had made the term of the award one year only. If the parties, were unable to agree on a scheme before the expiry of .the award the Court would probably embody an arbitrary scheme ,in the -next award. The Court had substituted a disputes committee for tho former board of control, as the powers proposed for. the latter were ultra vires. It had not dealt with piece work, as it was open for an employer to agree .■with his workers on any' system of payment, as long as the minimum wage was paid.