LABOURERS' UNIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 80, 21 April 1937, Page 5

LABOURERS' UNIONS

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WELLINGTON, This Day. Among questions discussed at a national conference in Wellngton last week of the General Labourers' and Related Trades ' Dnion was the dispute between the Wellington and Hawke's Bay anions over membership. For some timo there has been a dispute on the issue whether certain workers residing in Hawke's Bay should be members of the Wellington union or the Hawke's Bay union.' It is understood that the conference directed that all legal proceedings concerning the dispute should be discontinued. The men affected were asked to indieate by postal ballot which union they desired to join, Another question was whether the county councils awards applied to the Hawke's Bay nnion. The Wellington union held that the Hawke's Bay union was not a legal party to the award. The point was to have been decided by the Court of Arbitration when it next sat in Napier. Another issue was whether the Hawke's Bay union had jurisdiction over labourers employed by local bodies. The conference discu&sed other questions, including the action by the Hawke's Bay union against the Hawke's Bay County Cbuncil, which was stated to be in the nature of a fcest case. The action, it is understood, will be suepended pending the result of the ballot on the membership question.