AUCKLAND SADDLERS' UNION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 250, 16 July 1919, Page 9

AUCKLAND SADDLERS' UNION

DISSATISFIED WITH ARBITRATION ' COURT; By Toleeraph—Press Association. Auckland, July ]0. Dissatisfaction at the action ot the Arhitratibn Court in riot allowing thn members of . the Auckland , Saddlers' Union increased wages and a war bonus, for which application was made at. the recent sitting of the Court, tv«e expressed at a ston-work meeting of members of (he union to-day. _ The meeting carried a resolution, aiikine for a conference with the employers not later than. Saturday, July 20, to review Hie Court's decision and, failing a docis.ion satisfactory to tno .union being reached at (ho conference, that the Government <be asked In review-the decision of the Arbitration Court: with a view of raisins: the minimum wage of saddlers to at least the' rate awarded by. the Court to other -skilled trades. Failing litis beim; done, the union will join the Boot Employees' Federation, in demanding the removal of all larilf on jimported leather goods, feeling that if the industry, with the assistance of the tariff, car.no'i. afford lo pay the wages of skilled workers to employees in the. industry, it would he better for the country generally for IJio I n riffs to be removed, and for the workereTnow. employed ill the industry to scelc employment elsewhere, or in some other industry.