TEN PER CENT. CUT

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1931, Page 8

TEN PER CENT. CUT

EXEMPTION APPLICATIONS.

..DOMINION BASIS FOR SEVERAL...

Several of the applications by unions for exemption from the 10 per cent, wages cut which were mentioned Before the Arbitration Court at Auckland on Tuesday were disposed of in the meantime by deferring them for consideration on a Dominion basis in Wellington at a later period. The typographers, and the printers' machinists, lithographers, bookbinders and allied trades, also the freezing workers, are among those who are making but one application to determine the position of their industry throughout the Dominion.

There was some difference of :opinion between Mr. W. E. Sill, representing the Freezing Works Employees’ Union, and Mr. F. V. Sanderson, representing the freezing and easing companies, as to where the case should be heard. The president, Mr. Justice Frazer, suggested that it might be taken by the Court on its way through Christchurch in about two months’ time, and he left it to either of the parties to apply toward the end of the Wellington sittings for the making of a definite fixture. It was agreed that the application for exclusion from the 10 per cent, cut should be heard with the general dispute.