Work and Wages.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 5

Work and Wages.

, ARBITBixTiON . COURT. • COMPLAINT AGAINST ITS WO'K-K-mG.' '' • ' Per Press Association. ■ Invercargill, June 23. ,The Arbitrati.^ Court sat here this afternoon to. hear " a dispfuto in the , carpentering trade. ,The Imion's do~ rmapjAst are on the same -lines as at Bunedin, 1/4 an houi\ 44 hiDUi-S 4 as a weeVs work, apiprenticqa to be iiiclentutred, one to four cotnipetent men, arid preference to Unionists. The employees' case closed when ' the Court ro'ee. Tho chief difficulty is with re— ■gard to incompetent • workmen. '";.-. . Wellington, June 23J A . large j.dep'utation-i >of - sawmillera ironi Various parts. ~of the . cplqny waited . oh the Premier, in re- '- gard to the man'iier in which the ' Arbitration Act ;wask being worked. They asdeed that amenthnertisj should be introduced to prevent any official oi a unicm receiving; amyihing but a fixed salary, to prevent fines from being awarded to^ unions,, and to prevent' private settlements of breaches of awards, li was ixointe'd out that the secretary *of .one. union, who admitted receiving no salary from £hq orgattisation, had ' recently , Wsitccr~a"'ifpnaber of districts and personally' collected large sums in iiues, and stirred tlj[j a great .deal of irritation. These lines went to the secretary. The Premier agreed '" that private 'settlements of this kind were undesirable, and law might be amended to make it a penal oJVcnco for any one to square broaches of an awartl in ihin way. The best ' way to stop :tn abuse qf this, s kind would be < to appoint* Inspectors of Awards, who would be Government oili ( cia,ls'.