UNDER WHICH AWARD?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 34, 3 November 1937, Page 3

UNDER WHICH AWARD?

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Maintenance ' Workers in Industry EMPLOYERS' SUBMISSION

. (By Telegraph-

' 'AUCKLAND, Last Night; The contentio.n ti at .maintenance workers in variops industries' should.be bound' by • the gene al conditions governing those industries rath'er'th'an-by awards applying to their respeetive occupation's was advanced by - Mr - W. -Ei Anderson, ■ secretary to ' the Auckland Employers'. Association, -;in fh.e Arbitration- Court when qppearing.for' several

groups of. .employers. who were applying for exemptioiis from the New Zealand plumbets' and gasfitters' award. Mr Anderson also asked that- payment .of the plumbers eoncerned in -the -dispute should be changed from an hourly to, a weekly basis. .... • All the Dominion freezing 'an'd gas companies, 'the Auckland Transport Board, Oolonial Sugar. Eefinipg . Co., Ltd., and ' the United Repairing Co., Ltd., "sought special coiiditions under the award, while all the fertiliser companies in New Zealand and the Waikato. Hospital Board applied for tatai exemptioru In dealing with the applications individually, Mr Anderson illustrated his contention with the case of the freezing companies. Yarious companies worked a 4-hour week over 5% days, killing being done on Saturday mornings. The drainage system was t'hen in use, and it was necessary that plumbqrs should be' on duty.' " All the maintenance hands employed by the freezing companies," he sa!9, "are just as much, part of. the. industry as are slaghterers, . and. it is only.common sense that these- hands, should follow the' conditions of the industry. They should receive the award rates to" which they . are entitled, but the other conditions should be those, Qbt'aining.in the industry as a whole,? ' Mr J. Clark, secretary of the New Zealand. Plumbers » and' Gasfif,ters*, Federation, said that the plumbers did not want a weeldy wage. They' should receive the benefit -of the full casual rate of pay, he- said. -' • :-t' !. . ; The hearing was' adjourned. ** .