ARBITRATION COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10441, 22 April 1912, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

MUSTERERS AND PACKERS' I AWARD. The award of tiie Arbitration Court in tho dispute between tho Canteibuo Agricultural and Pastoral Union and the Canterbury Sheeponners Union in regard to the conditions of labour of musterers and packers fixes the wage for musterers employee, in mustering sheep at not less than 10s a day if engaged for less than a week and £2 5s if engaged for a week or more, any Sunday work in the latter case being paid for at 10s. Musterers employed at snow-raking are to be paid not less than 15s a day. Packers employed in connection with mustering aio to receive not less than £1 15s per week. Youths employed to learn mustering are not to be in greater proportion than one to four adult musterers, and are to bo paid £1 per week for tho first year and £1 5s per week for the second year, in addition to board and lodging. Good drv sleeping accommodation and food of good quality, including butter, is to be supplied to workers under the award. Questions in connection with the award are to be settled by agreement between the employer concerned and the local Union representative, or in default by the Stipendiary Magistrate of the district. Work is to go on pending a settlement, and the settlement mav be made retrospective. No discrimination is to be made against unionists. Regular farm or station hands assisting in mustering or packing are exempted from the award comes into force on May 6, 1912, continuing till May 6, 1914. AWARD FOR SHEPHERDS REFUSED. The Court dismissed the application for an award for shepherds, stating that the position was much the same as when in 1908 a similar application was refused. The Union had failed to show that there was any desire on the part of shepherds to have their wages fixed by the Court, or that there was any necessity for such an award. Of the witnesses called only one had worked recently as a permanent shepherd, and two others had done some casual shepherding dui'ing the lambing season. CITATION OF PARTIES IN.FARM LABOURERS' DISPUTE. The Court, in response to a motion for directions by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Labourers' Union, directs that tho Union must bring before? the Court a list of all the farmers in the industrial district and apply to have them added as parties to the dispute. On this being done the Court will make .an order adding them as parties and giving directions for citation. The application of tho Union for an order directing that farmers should be cited by advertisement, made under section 82 (c), was dismissed on the grounds that the conditions of the section had not been complied with, no reasonable steps having been taken to cite all persons known to be engaged in the farming industry. The further hearing of the dispute was adjourned till the next Christchurcb sitting. TIMBER YARDS, SAWMTLLS AND COALYARDS AWARD. An award Embodying without alteration the recommendations of the Conciliation Council agreed to by the - parties has been made by the Arbitration Court in the dispute between the South Canterbury Timber Yards, Sawmills and Coalyards Employees' Industrial Union and employers in the trade in South Canterbury. The minimum wage clause in the award is made retrospective, and operates as from December 18, 1911. The remainder of the award comes into operation on April 22, 1912, continuing in force till December 18, 1914. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS AWARD.

An award, embodying without alteration tho recommendations of the Conciliation Council, agreed to by the parties, has been made in the dispute between ;the Canterbury Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Union and fifteen hotelkeepers in the Timaru district. The award is to operate as from March 1, 1912, continuing in force until February 28, 1915.