CONCRETE WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 5

CONCRETE WORKERS

Application For New Award Ah application by the New Zealand Eederated Labourers’ and Related Trades' Industrial Association of Workers for a Dominion (except Northern, Otago and Southland) award for concrete and pumice goods workers came before the Court of Arbitration in Wellington yesterday. Mr. Justice Tyndall presided, and with him on the Bench were Messrs. W. E. Anderson (employers' representative) and A. L. .Monteith (employees’ repreesntative). Mr. P. AL Butler appeared in support of the application, and said t.hai the workers were asking for a 15 tier cent, increase in wages, but. were content to accept tiie finding of the Court, providing the cawe was heard on its merits. Tito assessors for the North Island Clay Products and Concrete Pipe Manufacturers were Messrs. E. TurkoiH'l (Wingel Concrete Block Co.. Wellington). A. IL MeG. Wright (director of the Hume Pipe? Co., Ltd.), Mr. .1. It. Todd (general manager of the Amalgamated Brick and Pipe Co. Ltd., Wellington), and Mr. A. W. Nisbet (secretary of the ’Wellington Al anti faetii rers' Association), agent. Mr. Nisbet said that workers’ advocates failed to substantiate their claims for wage increases when disputes were under discussion in Councils of Conciliation by submitting any valid reasons in support, of their claims oilier than a natural and human desire to be able to go back to (heir members, and annonnee their success in obtaining an increase in wages. He also said that workers' ad-