NO AGREEMENT YET.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1415, 16 April 1912, Page 3

NO AGREEMENT YET.

IKON AND BRASS MOULDERS' DISPUTE. The Conciliation Council set up to investigate the Iron ami brass Moulders' industrial dispute nift again yesterday morning. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. ]'. Ilally) presided. The assessors for the union were Messrs. A. Philip, J. Dove, ami W. 11. Turnor, and for the emplovers Messrs. .1. Cable, 1). Kobertson, and W. Crabtree. Mr. H. P. Allen, secretiiry of the Ironmasters' Association, was presenl as agent for the employers. Mr. T. Unllingcr niado an application on behalf of brassmouldcrs for exemption moulding was an industry totally different from the award, on the ground that brassl'roin ironmoulding. No brassmouldcrs were members of the Ironmasters' Association, neither did they engage in the same class of work, and so far as ho know no men employed as brassmoulders were members of the applicant union. He submitted that if fresh demands were to be made on behalf of brassmoulders' employees it would have to be dono by medium of a fresh dispute, ill which the assessors would be persons actually in business as brassmoulders.

The Commissioner promised that tho council would deal with the matter, but should the application not bo granted the question could be raised again in the court.

Subsequently the council refused to grant the exemption. The council then traversed the subject matter of'(ho dispute, but no agreement was arrived at on any single important issue. The dispute now stands adjourned in Wellington until after the. council has taken evidence in the other centres of the Wellington district. After this has been done the council will meet again here, and seek to arrive at an agreement to apply to the whole industrial district.