NO AWARD MADE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21532, 20 December 1939, Page 6

NO AWARD MADE

COURT UNABLE TO AGREE By Telegraph— Press Association AUCKLAND, December 19. As the Arbitration Court was unable ' to obtain a majority agreement on the clauses in dispute, it finds that it cannot make any award for the Auckland and Gisborne Tallymen’s Union. The Union’s application for a new a wal'd was heard by the Court on November 8. In announcing the Court’s failure to make an award, the president. Mr Justice O’Regan, said. “It is open to the parties again to confer with the object ,of making an industrial agreement or. failing that, the jurisdiction of the Court can be invoked again at the next Auckland session. “The majority of the clauses,” stated his Honour, “had been agreed upon in a Conciliation Council, but as usually happens, the more important issues, including those of wages and hours, were remitted to the Court. Ultimately there were five issues on which the lay i mibers of the Court were unable to agree, namely, the working week, the wages of permanent employees, the duration of paid holidays, the limitation of membership of the applicant Union and the extension of the award heretofore applicable only to the ports of Auckland and Gisborne to the entire northern industrial district. “When I had decided these issues, neither of my colleagues could agree to accept my decision, and as section 83 (2) of the Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925. requires the concurrence of a majority of the Court, no award can be made.”