Labor Disputes.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 2

Labor Disputes.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wanganui, last night.

The Arbitration Court commenced its sittings this morning in the furniture dispute. Evidence was called by the employees, who demanded hours and pay the same as the "Wellington agreement of employers and employees. The local employers agreed to most of the demands, but wanted Is 3d per hour in place of a weekly wage, and contended for three classes of employees, apprentices, improvers, and journeymen. In the timber trade case, Mr Orr, representing the union, paid a high tribute to the Wanganui Sash and Door Factory' ami its manager, and said that from a perusal of the wages book, £450 weekly, the yard was the best in the Wellington industrial district. The only point in dispute was a 3s per week difference in regard to unskilled labor. The painters and decorators’ case took up till the luncheon adjournment. Auckland, last night.

This morning applications were filed to take direct to the Arbitration Court the dispute between the master butchers and the Butchers’ Workers Union, and the dispute between the Auckland Gas Company and Gas Stokers and Coalers’ Union. The cases will be heard before the Court at the sitting on December 17.