VALIDITY OF AWARD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 23, 11 February 1937, Page 5

VALIDITY OF AWARD

Hawke's Bay Reply to Mr P. M. Butler STATEMENT BY MR JENNINGS The following statement was made to the Herald-Tribune .yesterday by Mr G, Jenninge, Becfetary of the Hawke's Bay Labourers' Union, tegardjng the eomment made by Mr P. M. Butler, seeretary of the Wellington and Diatriet General Labourers'. Union, on the validiLy of the agreement en teitd mto at the sitting of the Gon-ci-'ution Couneil at Napier last week: "First,"- said Mr Jenninge, "Mr Butler challenges the Hawke's Bay Labourers' . Union's right to cOver iocal bodiea. "but in a previous publication in the form of a letter to the edrtor, he definitely- stated thatr the Hawke's Bay union covered the Napier and Hastings borough councils. Further, Oo employer and employe© durjng the Conciliation Couneil hearing exprSssed an honest and sincere desire that the hward should be governed by ihe local union. * , "I would further point out that it was lurg"!y duo to an award made oy Mr Butjer ip 1935 in Wellington that in tho general labourers' section of the dispute recently heard in the Coueiliation Court in Napier no finality cnuld be reached,'-' said Mr Jenuings. "nbe Employers' Federation's rppretentvitives used as an argument tnati jjaiticuaa'- aWard and the union ap|ire$i*te'* ti f unfortunatp positiop that the employers were placed in.''