RECENT TYPOGRAPHICAL AGREEMENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 6

RECENT TYPOGRAPHICAL AGREEMENT

UNION PROTESTS. A special meeting of the Wellington Typographical Union was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Lambton Quay, on Saturday. There were seventy-eight members present. Tho following resolution was carried, with instructions that it be eent to the Press: —"That this meeting of the Wellington Typographical Union, representing about halt' the number of members affiliated to the Now Zealand Federated Typographical Association,, having read tlio report of the conference with the employers in the recent industrial dispute, and considered the agreement signed in consequence, affirms as follows:

(1) That some of those claiming to represent the employees had no right or authority to attend any on our behalf, tho dispute having been given over to managers, with instructions to go to the Court for a decision. (2) That all of those having authority from tho typographers of New Zealand to represent them contravened and exceeded such authority in entering into any agreement that did not contain a concession of the full demands made on the employers, or some equivalent improvement in conditions, without first consulting the members of the constituent unions of tho federation. (3) In consequence of which disregard of instructions by the employees' representatives nil persons occupying any representative position in unions of employees connected with tho typographical trade who took part in tho negotiations with the employers' representatives bo requested to resign such position forthwith, and the secretary of Ae Wellington Typographical Union is instructed to communicate tho text of .this motion at the earliest - convenient date to other unions comprising the federation, urging that any stil lading as representatives of affiliated unions have their authority cancelled. (4) Tho agreement, liaving beon signed without consultation with the members of unions of employees to the knowledge of the employers, and in contravention of tho expressed instructions of tho constituent unions of tho federation, is hereby repudiated, and the incoming executive of tho federation urged to approach the Court of Arbitration, employing competent counsel to ask whether in the peculiar circumstances it is not possible for the dispute to be reinstated, heard, and determined by tho Court."