UNDERRATE WORKERS' PERMITS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12255, 1 July 1909, Page 4

UNDERRATE WORKERS' PERMITS.

'.'.-. (Per; Pr^ss "Association). ' ; "eHUIS^C^iURqH, June 30. ' A. qxiestion lias 'arisen' regarding the effect: of the Industrial Conciliation. Act Amendment .Act, of ; 1908 .upon tho clauses .iujth^^waeds, of the Court relating to the^. i§§gg^! p.f underrate permits. In * many awards it is provided that in^h^fe^ri.t .of^niplo^ers and tho president jLnd.secrejt^py of a union agreeing, to issvie v a applied for there should be ah appeal.to the Chairman ot the Cohciliaitiojji. Jj,6ard,: Section 65 of 'last year's ;>Act: 'apparently overlooks these."--clauses/ ■■ and provides that permits may. be issued by. the Inspector of awards. ~,,.., v , ~,, Mr ,W' H. Hagger, the local Inspector of Awards; issued several permits in accordance,:with this-provision, but on receiving instructions; from the Labour Department that as Mr W. Minson, chairman of the Canterbury. Conciliation1 Board, lias riot resigned that position he (Mr- Mihspii) is the proper person to issue - the-^permits,- Mr Hagger has ceased issuiiig,tJiem. The term for which Mr Minson was appointed expires in about tweiity-one or twentytwo montlist^"*^^""'" ■ "

The Hpn;. M^jMiih^i-, Minister for Labour/ has expressed, : . the opinion -that there are no, chairmen of Conciliation Boards in existence.