ARBITRATION COURT.
[Pbb Pbess Association.]
Wellington. July 22. The Arbitration Court sat to day to consider the breaches of the award against the master butchers. The Court reserved its decision in tbe case against one butcher of having employed a boy of over nineteen years for a week after the award came into force at less than the schedule wage. Several complaints against the Gear Company were called on, but were withdrawn, being trivial. The question was whether the boys engaged riding out and general work should be rated as boys or general hands. Judgement was also reserved in other cases arising out of the employment of boys, the point being whether the boys were to bo put on a level with men. The president expressed tbe opinion in one case that an effdrt would be made to put boys on a level with men.
For having employed a non-Unionist to drive his cart without first consulting the unemployed register a working butcher was fined ss.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 July 1901, Page 3
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