AWARDS TO BE MADE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 16

AWARDS TO BE MADE

AGREEMENTS REACHED IN CONCILIATION ARBITRATION COURT SITS AT AUCKLAND (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, September 26. Complete recommendations from conciliation councils in several industrial disputes were reported by union secretaries to the Court of Arbitration to-day. In each case Mr Justice O'Regan, who presided, said the Court would accordingly make the recommendations into an award. An application to have the recommendations in the Dominion Tearoom and Restaurant Employees* dispute made into an award was supported by Mr F. G. Young, secretary of the Hotel Workers' Union, Who said complete agreement had been reached. Mr Young said there was an objection from the Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium authorities, based on religious scruples. -His union had met them in the past by agreeing that they should be conditionally exempted, if they paid the amount due in union subscriptions into the union's benevolent fund. . , .., , , i His Honour said there had been a similar application from the same body to be struck out of the grocers' award. They had been granted conditional exemption on their undertaking to pay the rates prescribed in the award. „.,,,,' \ Mr Young said it had been agreed that the rates of wages should be retrospective to September 5. His Honour said the recommendations would be made into an award. When the settlement in Ihe Dominion private hotels' dispute was submitted by Mr Young his Honour said he had an application for exemption from the Young Men's Christian Association in Dunedin, which would be deferred for further consideration. A complete settlement in the Dominion chartered clubs' dispute was also submitted by Mr Young. His Honour said the only matter requiring attention was an application on behalf of the Hamilton Club, which desired special conditions. The most appropriate place to hear that application would be at Hamilton. With .that reservation, the recommendations would be made into an award. A complete settlement in the Wellington Hospital Board gardeners' and labourers' dispute was presented by

Mr T. Stanley, representing the Wellington General Labourers' Union. "I take it there is no intention to extend this award to other parties," said Mr W. Cecil Prime, employers' member of the Court. Mr Stanley said he did not think there was. " His Honour said the settlement would be made into an award. On the application of Mr L. Glover, secretary of the Fire Brigades* Federation, which was unopposed, it was agreed to withdraw from the Court the Dominion fire brigades' employees' dispute.