ILL-CONSIDERED CLAUSE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 8

ILL-CONSIDERED CLAUSE

IN PAINTERS' AWARD. (By Telegraph*-Stew Association.! . Hew PfyriiogtH, March 3. Aft ifttetcsfeiitg case came before tho Magistrate's Court to'day when Nip.pert Bros., painters Biiid pa.periia.figeriS, were sued by the'lnspector of iswar.ds for a branch a'i an in.dust.rial agreement by employing men on Saturday afternoon. Counsel admitted thft offetofif but stated that tho clause in ijue.stfen \tss a most AtKiwaloss one. It denied the men the right to \Vork. lii this case tho employers had a painting contact, and had found' it necessity tft push ifc on-. The men had worked. voUintatilj , one Saturday afternson, aiid wcfe. liaid. Hie time v,-ei.s long past when men eould he denied■ the. right to work. The M'a|iitrato remarked that it was an clause and shdmld ihave been objected to long before, jfie paitit? ■ers' trade wa : s peculiarly on the state of the- freathor. ' . Tho iti-spector asketl for a light Jie'flalty, but wished to mako an c>x'amp:le, as 'employers Wofe too pro.no to treat mdvisti'ial agreements KgMJy,' Bio Magistrate imposed a' n'omihal penalty, veraarkinj!; that tbe elausii was a : n anoinaij". ! ' The next'developnient will bo tie pro* section of the worfemoii.