WATERSIDE LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1436, 10 May 1912, Page 4

WATERSIDE LABOUR.

A CANCELLED REGISTRATION. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Auckland, May 8. In Hie arbitration Court to-day a caw was hoard, in which certain omDloyen, represented bv Mr. Grosveuor, nsKod or nil I , fr 3 fixiim tl» conditions ior waters., e workers in "tonus of an agreement uuute l,v a Conciliation Council. The application was opposed by Mr. K. F Wbv. on behalf of tlio union, aim Mr. W i"i "Smith, "il behalf of otner employed "in support of his objection Mr. flay said that tlio union tool; no part in the conciliation proceedings as it had aireudy applied for cancellation of lis rrinslration \ssessors for tlu< workers were aj> : pointed bv commissioner. Jlo eoulcndoc thai tlm Court had no jurisdiction. Mr AVnv added that, of four linos representee bv Mr. Grosvenor two were working undoi oil agreement made ont.siilo 11k Acl. anc th« other two I'liiployeil very little labour Mr. GroMT-iioi' replied that :lil partici bad been added by the Conciliation Council lie claimed (hat there was disunion anions' the workers and in support of thin he produced a )M;titiou signoil by -<>l unionists asking for an award. Mr. Smith claimed tliat the seven firm« he represented employed 30 per cent of the labour, and he produced returns showing ihal 'he number of men employed by llii'M t ul..'elively averaged INlii per week. The Court reserved its judjjnh'ut.