WORLD OF LABOUR

Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 6

WORLD OF LABOUR

BUILDING TIIAL'E DEAULOCK. Sy Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. LONDON. March 1. The ih adlock in the building trade continues. Xhe men have lost two hundred thousand pounds in waste ss - and trade unions large sums for lock-out pay. r.NRKST IN AUSTRALIA. "WHARF I. A LOU UK US' STI'.IKK ENDEI». SYDNKV. March Received March 9.::n p.m. .fudge • Heydon lias "ranted the appli: cation of the Amalgamated Railway anil Tramway ■ Service Association for registration as an industrial union under the Arbitration Act. The Association's former registration was cancelled in 19TJ. A mass meeting of iron workers' assistants is called for to-morrow afternoon. otherwise there is no fresh developments. JIKLBOVRNE, March a. Received March 5. 9..10 p.m. sir Justice Higgins, in adjourning the wharf labourers' case till Monday, congratulated the employers. the Union leaders and. above all. the public, on the fact that the threatened disaster had been averted. The shipowners had exercised a wise patience in not taking certain steps which would have precipitated a general struggle— line much greater than die recent upheaval in New Zealand. DOMIN'R in PLFMBKRS' DLSI’UTK. (Per United Dress Association)"WKLLINGTO.N. .March Giving evidence in tlm Dominion thumpers' dispute at the Arbitration Court t*>-day Mr < b-orge I P urge, director of technical education in Auckland, stated that he .'id pot think that one cent. ..f the tippr-niict. s ip the plumbing trade could pass tu inti I ion at Ih*- end of tlp'ir apprentice-hip unless they r 1 ft'iv. d . spa-inl instruction such as was given in technical schools. The only substitute for evening cla-ses was day training, under which hoys would not be tir'd out ns at present after eight hours of work. In Munich. Germany, where all app’entices np to eighteen years of age required p, attend Classes, the system turned mil most successful I ing hcariily approved by the employers who at fitsr opposed the introduction of the system. Mr Grenfell, den lim; wit it tic- Unions claim, .said that plumbers should he paid more titan carpenters and pointed out that plumbers had mop- eonfnuou- and regular employment. ARBITRATION COURT WELLINGTON. .March .1. At the Arbitration Court the Wellington Furniture Trade Union appealed against tin d- vision of Mr .1. S. Kvans. 8.M.. in dismissing a case against Scottilar Co. Ltd., in which appellants alleged that the company had employed more than rim nttmb'r of apprentices it was entitled to, Tim appeal was made upon a fault of law. Appellants contended that the , : '.dgment was wp-mg In law inasmuch a s the Magistrate wrongly heM that under the industrial award appli'-ab'e ~, ,| le nf)Sf . the defendant ceunpc.nv iii calculating the number of a pp-’-ert t ices which it was entitled to employ in the upholstering branch of its business, could take into account and lump together the number of all journeymen employed by it in the different departments of the upholstering branch of its business. The Court reserved its decision The plumbers' dispute was continued •nd adjourned till Monday.