THE LABOUR WORLD.

West Coast Times, 20 April 1911, Page 4

THE LABOUR WORLD.

WHAT CONSTITUTES “TRIMMING.”

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AUCKLAND, April 19. The Arbitration Court gave an interpretation of the Waterside Workers’ Award in regard to the difference between shovelling and trimming in handling coal, and held that any place on a vessel where coal was stored; although only temporarily for the-steamer’s use, is a coal, bunker, and all work done in an ordinary coal bunker is properly treated as trimming. In connection with the work done on one occasion it is alleged that there was a breach by the Union Steamship Company. The Court held that the shovelling of coal from the ’tween deck into the lower hold was not trimming, but work done in the lower hold in arranging the coal was trimming within the meaning of the award.

The . company had committed a breach of ..the award in not paying three men higher wages, and ordered th'e company to pay the costs ,no penalty being imposed as the case was brought for interpretation.