TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10755, 20 March 1897, Page 5

TRADES AND LABOUR.

THE SEAMEN'S CLAIMS,

Mr W. A. Sim, /chairman of the Board of Conciliation for this district, has received from the secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union intimation of the union's acceptance of. the board's reoommendatiens for a settlement of tho dispute between tie union and the Union Steam fihip Company and Mr Keith Ramsay, with the modification that it has been agreed between the Union Steam Ship Company and the Seamen's. Union that membership of the company's benefit society shall be optional from date, instead of froa the 30th September, as recommended by the board. It is understood that industrial agreements will be drawn and filed embodying the tarns of the settlement.

4 Wellington telegram states that; in reply to the Trades and Labour Council the Premier has promised that members oi the Conciliation Board will receive one guinsa iier day while engagedin their duties, with su increase of 10s per day when absent on the board's business.

Mr A. Collins has teen re-elected president of the Wellington Trtdis Council. The balance Bheet shows the receipts for the past year to have been £50 19s sdand the expenditure £47. Th,e annual report recommends an amendment of tb.e Corrupt Practices Act so as to do away with touting by committees, and the making of dual voting impossibla.

While tti -jLockland the attention of Mr Trege*rwas directed to the long hours of the. local hospital nurses; bat he pointed out that, under "existing conditions, it was a matter for the local hospital authorities to deal with. .

At the Palmerston Magistrate's Court, Annie I 1?. Rodgers was charged, on the information of 1 r-he inspector of factories, with ; having olosed ' Ler shop on a, day other than that fixed as the weekly, half-holiday in the Borough of Palmerston, and kept open on fas day of the ststntory half-holiday, in contravention "of the provisions of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act. Mr Solomon, after raisiug tha point that defendant was not the owner of the shop but carried it on for her brothers, stated that she acted •in ignorance and with no intent to ■ evade or set the law at defiance. Mr Findlay, for the inspector, said defendant knew what she was doing. A fine of 10s, and costs (£1 17s), was imposed. ■

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