LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12476, 13 September 1904, Page 3

LABOUR.

THE LEEDS CONGRESS. United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.30 p.m., September 12th. LONDON, September 12. The Leeds' Congress, with one dissentient, resolved that.the South African labour ordinance is opposed to the best interests of British subjects at home and abroad'. Mr Jones, the West Ham delegate, declared that the agitation against Chinese labour was the most canting exhibition he had ever witnessed, especially since British shipowners w-ere using it on their own vessels. THE ARBITRATION COURT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. The Arbitration Court, in the case Tailors' Union v. Strange and Co., held that respondents had employed more than the prescribed proportion of weekly wage hands as compared with piece workers, and respondents wese fined £2, with costs £2 2s. In the Coach-builders' Union v. Boon and Co., the Court held that a painters' labourer could be employed also as a coach painter if when so employed he was paid the rate of wages prescribed by the award for such work, and the case was dismissed. Tinsmiths' and Sheet-metal Workers' v. Thomas Crompton—respondent was fined £5 and costs for paving" rne ~nuninvuHr~wage* The cases against non-unionists for accepting less than the minimum wage were dismissed, the Court holding that the award did not bind nonunionists. In the case Tailoresses' Union v. the Kaiapoi Company, the Court held that no breach of the preference clause had been committed by the respondents, who had given tailoresses' work to other workers not under the award. The Court did not think less than log rates could be paid to hands performing work so transferred.

DUNEDIN, September 12. The Arbitration Court resumed its- sittings to-day. A claim for compensation by Robert Keith, employed by Thomas Spain, hotelkeeper, as farm labourer, was heard. Keith claimed damages, he having, on July Ist, while . crossing a gully, fell, owing to the slippery state of the ground, and fractured his shoulder. He was awarded twelve weeks' pay, at 19s 3d, plus £5 5s costs and expenses.