PLUMBING DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 8

PLUMBING DISPUTE

WAGES DIFFICULTY

DEADLOCK REACHED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHUECH, This Day,

For the first time in Christchureh since the passing of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1932, the employers' assessors in an industrial dispute at a sitting of the Conciliation Council proposed that the question of wages be referred to the Arbitration Court. ■■ . ■ . ■

The parties were the New Zealand Federation of Master Plumbers (employers), who applied for a Dominion award for the industry, and the New Zealand Federation of Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Unions (workers). An' agreement on most points of the employers' proposals was reached, but the employers stipulated that acceptance by the union of all their -other proposals should be a condition of their suggestion to refer the wages to the Arbitration Court. ■ •

CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day. "We are unanimous in turning down the employers' offer," said Mr. H. Thompson, of Wellington, when - the Conciliation. Council resumed its hearing of the plumbers' dispute. ' . > Mr. D. T. Macdonald, for the employers, 6aid that Is 10* dan hour was their limit.

Mr. Thompson said the union was quite willing to refer the whole matter to the. Arbitration Court, but not the matter of wages alone. The union asked for 2s an hour, and word had been received that the electricians of the North Island had been granted 2s OJd an hour. '

A 'deadlock, resulted, and the Commissioner is conferring , with . both parties.