ARBITRATION COURT
DUNEDIN CASES
(Per United Press Association.!
DUNEDIN. May 7,
The Arbitration Court is dealing with the dispute in the brewery and bottling •■rude. Mr MacManus, for-the union, optioned the : application for certain exemptions, and contended'that as the agreement was reached on January 14th, two lays prior to theTast sitting of the Court, the award ,bo made retrospective.' Decision was deferred.' ' ■ In the operative tailors’ shop and tailoresses’ disputean objection was raised to the citation of. .retail drapers, r pn the ground that, they were not employers. The union applied to have the award dated from March I,' contending that, as all •■etailerß wore cited -before the Commissioner, the objection came too later. On the president’s suggestion • a further conference was,arranged between the parties, .and the hearing was; adjourned for a Week. . In the Dunedin trawlers’ dispute, Mr Breen, for the union, moved that the case be struck out, which the employers opposed, asking for ah award. The application was withdrawn. In the farriers’’ dispute, Mr Taylor, for the Southland coachbuilders, oblooted to Southland craplovers being added to any reference. Adjourned for a week to eniblc the parties to agree to a limitation if the radius around Dunedin.
The metal workers’ assistants applied o have the Commissioner’s recommendations embodied in the award. The cmoioyers take exception to the clause affecting existing contracts. The hearing U proceeding.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13975, 7 May 1913, Page 7
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227ARBITRATION COURT Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13975, 7 May 1913, Page 7
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