LABOR LITIGATION.
NUMEROUS FINES.
,(Vn Press Association..) Invercargill, last night. In inflicting penalties for neglecting to indenture apprentices the President of the Arbitration Court said the Court was tired of that form of breach of the Aot, whioh threw an inordinate amount of work on the officials, and would have to faring employers to a sense of their duty by heavier penalties. In some oases it was stated that youths deolined to be bound, because with a fair knowledge of a trade they could get better wages under permits than as apprentices. In one case a carpenter was .fined £2 for employing two foreigners at a shilling less than the award rate, they being unable to speak English. I Respondent said that he had disoharged the meD, who were now working for 5s a day for someone else under permit. A baker was fined J3l for working as a foreman for lees than the award rate. Master bakers . were fined £2 eaoh for setting carters to work in the bakehouse. In another oase an employer was fined £3 and an employee £1 for a similar breaob. The employer said he could not indenture a youth at the time, as he expeoied to be J goiDg out of business.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1547, 31 August 1905, Page 3
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