BOOT TRADE DISPUTE.
GLASSIFICATION OF OPERATIVES. (Put United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 16. In a memorandum to the Arbitration Court’s award in the New Zealand federated boot trade dispute, filed to-day, Mr Justice Frazer said the principal matter referred to the court was the classification of operatives, which had been agreed to in the past before the 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 it had renewed, with a few amendments, the existing award. The court was satisfied that the boot manufacturing industry was one to which classification could be applied, and for that reason it 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 probabiy embody an arbitrary scheme in the next award. The court had substituted a Disputes. Committee for the former Board of Control, as the powers proposed fo r the latter were ultra vires. It had not dealt with piecework, as it was open for an employer to agree with his workers on any system of payment, so long as the minimum wage was paid.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 8
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