LABOUR
SHIRTMAKERS' DISPUTE.
APPLICATION FOR AWARD REFUSED.
By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 8.
Application was made in the Arbitration Court to-day by the CanterburyShirt, White and Silk Workers’ Union, to have a recently concluded industrial agreement made into an award by the Court.
Mr J. Roberts, for the Union, said that the majority of employers employing a majority of workers in the district had signed the agreement. His Honour said that those parties who had signed the agreement were bound by it, but those who had not yet signed it, were not liable under it. since no dispute had ever been created. Until they were joined to the agreement, an award could not be made.
For the 'employers, it was argued that until the old award was disposed of the parties not signatories to the new award would be bound by the old award.
His Honour refused the application, as there was a danger, if it was granted, of there being two awards side by side in the same district. Both sides would now be free to get rid of the old award by creating an industrial dispute.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19512, 10 June 1933, Page 18
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