"MEN WONT WORK."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 8

"MEN WONT WORK."

PREMIUM BONUS SYSTEM.

DOMINION MOTOR INDUSTRY.

UNION SECRETARY'S WARNING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCIIURCH, this day. "Even if the Arbitration Court includes it in the award it will not be binding. The men won't work under the system if they don't want to do so," said Mr. R. F. Barter, of Auckland, one of the assessors for the workers, when Mr. J. F. Cousins, secretary of the New Zealand Motor Trade Association, stated at a sitting of the Conciliation Council this morning that the employers proposed to ask the Arbitration Court to provide for piecework or the premium bonus system in the motor mechanics' award. Mr. Barter declared his uncompromising hostility to the premium bonus system, and said that the workers in the New Zealand motor industry did not wish to have "American methods" introduced. Then he made t »-• remark quoted. "You mean a strike," remarked Mr. E. King (Wellington), one of the employers' assessors. 'Tm not using the word strike," Mr. Barter replied. Mr. King: Well, that is what your statement means. In view of the attitude of the union, Mr. Cousins said it was useless to discuss the matter further at that stage. He intimated that the proposal would be submitted to the Arbitration Court.