EXEMPTION WANTED
RELIGIOUS GROUNDS THE BASIS By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, September 28. The application of the Sanitarium Health Food Coy., to be struck out from the grocers’ award, drivers’ dispute and clerical workers award was heard in the Industrial Court by Mr J. A. Gilmour, S.M. The application was based on-religious grounds, tha representative of the company explaining that difficulty arose because if the company were made a party to the awards it would not be allowed to employ any worker w’ho was not a member of the union. It did not object to the other terms of the awards, but to this principle of compulsory" unionism The application for exemption was objected to by the various unions concerned on the grounds that the company was in direct competition with other stores that were bound by awards. The Magistrate reserved his decision but pointed out that last year an application to add the company to the biscuit and confectionery makers’ award had been refused by the Arbitration Court on the company giving an undertaking to observe all th, other clauses of the award.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21154, 29 September 1938, Page 10
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183EXEMPTION WANTED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21154, 29 September 1938, Page 10
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