TALLYMEN'S DISPUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 7

TALLYMEN'S DISPUTE.

THE EMPLOYMENT OF PERMANENTS. APPLICATION TO ARBITRATION COURT. PRINCIPLE OF WATERFRONT AWARDS. Agreement in conciliation having been reached on most points at issue in connection with the Auckland tallymen's dispute, the only matter that remains for the Arbitration Court to decide is whether or not permanent tallymen should be included in the award.

Advancing the claim that permanents should be brought within the provisions of the award, Mr. H. J. Sheppard, union advocate, told the Court this morning that at the present time there was a number of permanent men employed on the waterfront alongside of casuals. Some of the former had resigned from the Tallymen's Union because they considered the order could not apply to them. There were, however, five permanents still in the union and quite willing to be covered bv an award.

Mr. S. E. Wright, employers' representative, said the award was based on the waterside workers' award and applied to casuals only The inclusion of permanent men in the award would lead to a good deal of confusion and would also be a departure from the principle underlying agreements that applied to work on the waterfront.

David Carter, manager of the Union Steamship Company, Ltd., and Robert James Foreman, of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, said that permanents employed by their companies carried out work additional to tallying. The question of supervision bad influenced the decision to put on permanent tally clerks.

Mr. A. L. Monteith (employees' assessor) : Is it not a fact that the employment of permanents makes the employment of casuals more casual?

Mr. Carter: In a sense it would

The Court decided to consider tlie points and deferred its decision.