GROCERS’ DISPUTE
COMMISSIONER’S ACTION. QUESTIONED BY COUNCIL. [ Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, April 24. An industrial dispute between the master grocers and the Canterbury grocery employees gave rise to an interesting discussion at a Conciliation Council sitting this morning, when a group of grocery firms, represented bv Mr. D. T. MacDonald, objected that they had not been consulted. The Conciliation Commissioner, Air. 8 Ritchie, revealed that the group represented by Mr. MacDonald had been granted exemption from the present 'dispute, and granted May 4 for the hearing of a separate dispute of. their cwn. A brisk discussion followed as to whether the Commissioner’s action was competent. The council then resolvef that the firms which had been granted - xemption should remain parties to the dispute, but the Commissioner intimated that he would hold the matter over until-he got 2 ruling from the Arbitration Court. There were, he said, pnomalies in the legislation. He could rot find that there was any limit to the number of disputes that could be created in an industrv. The rasp ic proeeedinsr.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 6
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175GROCERS’ DISPUTE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 6
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