PRINTERS' UNION
The Wellington Letterpress Printers, Lithographers, and Paper Cutters' Union lield ii largely attended meeting on Saturday night. The follou'inx resolution was carried: "That this union has no confidence in the Arbitration Court. , We are convinced that our award was not amended in accordance, with evidence submitted, and was influenced and Trojudiced by the agreement arrived at by the delegates of the Typographical Society, and certainly not in accordance with the Court's own statement that skilled trades should receive Is. 7'jd. per hour, and 2Jd. per hour war bonne—a statement given effect (a wiien amending awards of the plumbers and other skilled trades—notwithstanding the fact that the published return showed the letterpress printers to liavo 'received the lowest increase in wiffns since the war started."
The union also decided to establish a printing Trades' Federation, with a- view of meeting Hie omployers on an., equal footing in the , near future.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 153, 24 March 1919, Page 6
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151PRINTERS' UNION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 153, 24 March 1919, Page 6
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