ARBITRATION COURT.
BLENHEIM, May 24.* The Shearers' Union applied under the War Legislation Act for an amendment of the award of last year, claiming increased rates of pay for shed hands. The matter was adjourned to Wellington, to be heard next month, as the award in question is a dominion award. -s # The Marlborough Farm and Station Employees' Union had cited > the Sheepowners' Union in a claim for increased rates of thrashing wages. The court upheld the objection that the Sheepowners' Union could not be a party to such a dispute, and struck it out. During the hearing of a claim against individual farmers, Mr Justio Stringer, referring to preference to unionists, said the court recognised that in agricultural work such a clause was impossible in application and not enforceable. May 21. The Shearers' Union applied under the War Legislation Act for an amendment of the award of last year, claiminj? increased rates of pay for shed hands. The matter was adjourned to Wellington, to be heard next month, as the award in question is a dominion award. The Marlborough Farm and Station Employees' Union had cited the Sheepowners' Union in a claim for increased rates of threshing wages. The court upheld the objection that the Sheepowners' Union could not be a party to such a dispute, and struck it out. During the hearing of a claim against individual farmers, Mr Justice Stringer, referring to preference to unionists, said th« court recognised that in work such a clause was impossible in application and not enforceable
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Otago Witness, Issue 3455, 1 June 1920, Page 17
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