ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

« SITTING AT DUNEDIN. (By TclcsrapU—Press Association.) Dunedin, May 16. Tho Arbitration Court held a sitting here to-day. In ' the recommendation for an award in Iho dispute of the Otag'o Hotel, Restaurants, and Boarding-House Employees Industrial Union of AVorkers versus "the Coifco Palace Company and other private hotel-keepers, Mr. Breen, who appeared for the union, .said tho main alterations were a rise of 2s. per week for waitresses, Is. for housemaids, witli provision for probationary .housemaids. There was a reduction of 2s. 6d. per week in laundry w;ork, and the hours of men employed in private hotels were increased to 02 per week. Mr. Pryor objected to an award being made except in respect of the Coffee Palace, Leviathan Hotel, and Wood's Hotel, which had been working'under the award for two years. 111-. Breen also applied for the inclusion of Robert Spray, of the 'J'roeadero, in tho award. The Court reserved its decision. In the case . of the Iron and Brass Moulders' Union v. Shaddock and others, Mr. Breen, on behalf of the union, opposed the recommendation of tho Conciliation Council, and said the union desired the whole matter to be. goue into. Tho union objected to Clause b and c of the award referring to certain rates of pay for stock catalogue work. The President said the union wanted to come to Court and pick out what suited . it, and ignored the rest. There were three courses open to the union: (1) to accept the recommendation, (2) withdraw from the award and arrange _a fresh dispute, and (,1) to again go before tho Conciliation Council.

Mr. Breen said a mistako hail been made by the assessors, and lie would follow the third course suggested. In the Olago hotel, restaurant, and boarding-house employers' dispute, Mr. Breen asked that the Court grant the same conditions as had been granted in Wellington, and that the question be referred back to tho Conciliation Council.

Mr. I'ryor objected to this course. The trade in Dunedin was in a very bad state, and increased cost would mean that quite- a number of the lower-priced houses would m out of existence. The Court reserved its decision.