DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

lIV TtXI-.UIt.M'U — I'IU'.SS ASSN., llll'Vl'.llilir

AiKAT II! IST AND POLITICS. ( 11I! IS Ti 111 il« 11. June .', eoufereiiee id the North < 'ant vhniy P.ranch ol lie- Parmer- I nioii oas.-eil the following "That in i In- opinion ol tin- ( ooloreoee, it innwi'e and impolitic In engage in the -trite oi Party politic', and that only general polities. a- ’they allerl the.lile and well being ol primarv prmlueers and the who!.' eominuiuiy should he tl.'l'Tleil le. : lie 1'nioll." It was also decided : "That t lii~ •i>i-cling soongly coii-ider- that the proposed meat merger i- not ill the best iniere-t- I lie producers of the D.iiiunioli and ihal the Meal Board he ask'-d i ' carefully walcli the proposed meat merger in order to oroleel the laruieis and the lariner-.' L'ceaing

companies against exploitation and trusts."

A SKA.MAN'S POSITION

AI'CKLAN'D. June 7. In an aetion brought by Ihe Auckland Federated Seamen's Fulfill against the I'nion St<-auisliip Coy. tor an alleged breach ol the Seamen's

Award, plaintilf sought lor iln- ini-p.-e-ition ol a p-.-ualtv. alleging that the defendant Company employed a hoy to keep th" night watch and attend ihe gangway of the Arahura at Auckland. i n the night of December 2Jrd. (Tail' • .‘tPa of the Award stipulated that II" liny -hoillil keep a night watch or atti ltd ihe gangway. Mi Cullen. S.AI.. in giving judgment for ib-feiid-aiit. said i lie eliief ollieers log contained a sletcmeiit that the hoy was promoted to tlm position of ordinary se.imao, and next morning when the shipping oilier was opened, he was toriiiaiiy given hi. discharge a- a hoy and

re-engaged a- an oidinary seaman. Ho had been paid for the night watch at the rate for an ordinary seaman. There was no doubt eomerniug the validity of flic promotioi:. I'NION City FINKD. AFCKLVXD. .fnne 7. A written derision wa- given bv Air Cut ten S.AI in an action bv the federated Seamen's I’nion against the I'nion S.S. Coy. for two alleged breaches ot Clan-e !L ot the .--eauim - and Firemen's Award. The l.renthes idleged were that il-'fondant icduevd the no'.iioing scale of two vs.els without notice to the I'nion. Ihe vc>si Is had. been laid up and when roenmmi—sioned were put on to rlas-es ot trade different from tin* previon- oiks. Defendants eonteuded it wa- then-tore entitled to lix a new manning -rah* in accordance with the Award, without giving notice to tin* plaintiffs, although in frit the new manning .- ale involved a reduction. By request the ease was Mated lot tin- opinion of the Arbitration Court, which Court decided these fact' constituted a broach and the ea-e wa- retd-red hark to the Magistrate's ('unit to he draft with. Judgment was given for plaintiff for a penalty of £7> in respect of each breach witn rests £'2 2' in that Court and

cost- L'.T .'I- allowed hy the Arbitration (Turn .