VAGUE THREATS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 4

VAGUE THREATS.

MERCHANTS' ASSISTANTS IMPATIENT. Tho Merchants' Assistants' Union (Mr. G. G. Variant], organiser), at a meeting held on Thursday eveuing, reviewed ito position with respect to tins Arbitration Court at some length. The union was lcgistcied in March last, aud its caso for better working conditions and waees wis heard by Mr. Hnlly, Conciliation Commissioner, when it was adjourned, pending the ruling of the Arbitration Court on a certain point, aind that is the Inst the union has hoard of the matter. Af. tor a long discussion it was moved (and passed) "That this meeting of merchants' assistants regrets tho dilatory way in which the Arbitration Court has dealt with the ruling aslced for bv the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Hally) in tho dispute with tho union and the employers, and urges its members to consider tho advisability of withdrawing tho caso from the Arbitration Court, and cancelling registration und=r tho Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and move towards joining tho New Zealand Federation of Labour, ; and striking for an increase of ! wages. , There were also Taguo threats of call\"K >1 the assistance of the Waterside Workers Union (of which Mr. Farland is secretary) if the warehouses do nofr accede to the union's demands.