ARBITRATION COURT.
COMPULSORY HOLIDAYS. (Per Press ’Association.)’ Christchurch, last night. At the Arbitration Court to day Augustus Nixon, a carpenter, was fined £2 for employing a non-unioniet when there were nine unionists on the books of the union. For paying less than the minimum wages the following were fined :—Alex Riach £2, F. N. Steel £3 and ordered to pay back wages for eight weeks, Craddock and Orr £lO. The Tailoresses’ Union charged the Eaiapoi Woollen Company with employing a larger proportion of apprentices to operatives than the award allowed. Counsel for the company said he had no legal defence to offer, but unless the company could employ more apprentices it could not cope with the output of the mill, which would have to be closed down. The company, with the concurrence of the union, had had to Bend to Sydney for operatives. Counsel for the union contended the arrangement was only temporary, and part of the complaint was that □umbers of local girls had during the period when operatives wero alleged to be anobtainable been given holidays which ;vas praotically equal to dismissal. The lourt reserved judgment. 1
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1479, 13 June 1905, Page 2
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