ARBITRATION COURT.
(Per Press Association)
INVERCARGILL, last night. On Saturday the Arbitration Court gave awards in the saw mills and car ters disputes. In the former dispute it was sought to bring three small Catlino mills into line with those of Southland. The owners chiefly resisted on the ground that the bush was so poor that it could not pay the tire wages current in Southland, and that Gatlins was not a natural part of this district., The Court rul ed that the Gatlins must pay the same rates as agreed on by the Southern masters and men, but refused to give preference to unionists as unworkable. The Court inserted the
usual clauses p;< \ iding that masters should not discriminate between union and free laborers. In the carters’ case the men asked £2 2s for single horsemen, and £2 6s for drivers of twm horses, but the Court fixed the minimum of £2 and £2 4s, upholding the Board of Conciliation in regard to preference. The Court said that the Union had only recently formed, contained only 30 members, and had not shown a prima facie case for preference. They, however, introduced a non-discrimination clause in regard to driving bakers’ carts. The Court did not consider it should impose restrictions on the employment oi youths in callings in which they, were fully, competent to works
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 366, 17 March 1902, Page 3
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