WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2080, 15 May 1907, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

THE GERMAN LOCKOUT. Press Association—Copyright, ltecoivod 10.10 p.m., May 14. BERLIN, May 14. Tlio lockout will cause the loss of £250,000 in wages weekly..

AUCKLAND DISPUTES.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. At the opening of the employers’ case in connection with the Auckland water-side workers’ dispute, Mr. G. S. Smith said the Wellington award would work well and tho men would then be better off than the Wellington wharf lumpers. He suggested that the case was only brought to justify the new union’s existence, not because there was discontent. The Auckland butchers are unable to agree with employes as to wages and conditions regarding slaughtering for the local trade. An agreement regarding the freezing .works will probably be made into an award local matters being held over for hearing next September. The Arbitration Court is continuing the hearing of evidence in the water-side workers’ dispute. With the consent of the parties concerned "the Court made an award between the Auckland Cooks and Stewards Union and the Union Company, making the terms of the Wellington award apply to the Company in Auckland.

AUCKLAND TRAM WORKERS. AUCKLAND, last night. Tlie Arbitration Court’s judgment in tho citations of tlic Auckland [Electric Tramway Co. and two employees in connection with tho tramway strike last November was given this afternoon by Mr. Justice Sim. *-‘We hold,” his Honor said, “that the company did not have good cause for dismissing, the men, except Boyce, and we impose a fine of £5, and orrtter, the company to pay the fees of Court and witnesses’ expenses, to bo ijaxed by tlio Clerk of Awards; hut tl:J> /company is not to pay tlie expenses of. any witnesses called exclulively to prove it was not tlie duty or the men to teach learners/V In regard to the two employees, Michael E. Earrclly and Edward Fletcher, charged with having committed a breach of the Act. by taking part in a strike, his Honor said it appeared that this short-lived strike was unpremeditated and without organisation, and might not have occurred hiit for the want of tact displayed by the company’s officials. A fino of £1 without costs was inflicted in each caale.