VARIOUS AWARDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21086, 12 July 1938, Page 12

VARIOUS AWARDS

EXEMPTION SOUGHT Decision Reserved By Telegraph —Press Association WELLINGTON, July 11. The Second Court of Arbitration was occupied to-day hearing claims for exemption from the New Zealand Timber \ workers award of certain workers in freezing works, motor and horse drivers othe than those employed m sawmills or in bush and engine drivers and their assistants within a 25 miles radius of Wellington, also applications to join parties to New Zealand insurance officers award. Mr H. J. Bishop, advocate for the freezing companf employers sought the exemption of coopers and yard hands employed in freezing works from the timber workers award on the grounds of complication over the 40 hour week in one industry and 44 in the other. Mr , A. Parlane, secretary of the Wellington Drivers’ Union asked that the men engaged in road transport driving in connection with the timber industry should be excluded from rules of the I timber workers union he submitte.-’: (1) That drivers employed in the timber industry were already covered by the terms of the New Zealand Drivers’ Award; (2) that the timber workers union was not representative of j drivers; (3) that the rules of the New Zealand Timber Workers’ Union did I not cover drivers other than those em- | ployed in the precincts of sawmills, i and (4) that the inclusion of drivers I in the timber workers award would mean a reduction in rates as compared with those obtaining under the drivers | award. | Mr F. L. Turley, secretary oi the New j Zealand Timber Workers’ Union, said the Union was concerned only with drivers who were part and parcel of the milling industry and not with any others. It had had these men as its members for many years, but the drivers’ union now wanted to take many of them away. Mr A. Seed, secretary of the Sawmillers’ Federation, said the chief concern of the employers was that the

industry should be governed by one award. To have a few employees governed by other awards would lead to complications. Shipping companies and stock and station agents were involved in an application to join certain workers in these firms to the New Zealand Insurance officers award. Mr H. J. Bishop submitted that the test was at what work the employee was substantially engaged. The court reserved its decision on all points.