CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1932, Page 3

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

SITTING AT GREYMOUTJi. ...^ ! "" ' A sitting of the Conciliation Cduite|l* : presided over by the Mr S. Aas held' at GreymoptlK yesterday morning. The ousipess of the meeting- was; tjie consideration of a disputtf.vfn.connection with the conditions 1 ’ applying to boilermakers, engineers, etc., between tlie Dispatch Foundry Co., Ltd., Greymouth, and the Amalgamated Engineering and Allied Tracies Industrial Union of Workers, and others listed. The others listed;’ were; Blank and Berendt A. Cederman (Hokitika), G, Davidson (Hokitika), T. Walker (Kurnara), F. Mc-Gi-egor (Hokitika), J. Riley and Sons (Westnort), W. Wright (Hokitika), , ; ']ilimu Gold Dredging Co.. Ltd. (Hokitika),/ Cobden'Engineering Co. (Cobden), and Grey Harbour Biard (Greymouth).

Messre D. J. MacDonald, secretary to the Canterbury Employers’ Union, W. P. Hambleton,- T. J. Higgins and J. G. Hambleton (representing the employers) and Messrs J. Scorgie and V. Barton (employees’ representatives’’ were appointed assessors. ‘ Mr Scorgie apologised for the absence of Mr G. Thurston, secretarv to the New Zealand; Amalgamated Engineering and Allied Trades 'lndustrial Association of' Workers, and Mr L. Sliuker.

Mr MacDonald apologised for the absence of Mr F. M. Dennehy. V ■

The Chairman recalled that the first meeting of the * Council on the matter was adjourned until to-day, to see what would come of ; tl^o;f.,, dispute, kt Wellington, over the ■rile, Dominion dispute,; he said, had been'adjourned to try arrange a comprehensive award to iiielude the boilermakers and moulders with the rest of the engineering workers. The thirty days of the adjournment were then up, and unless it was decided to ..10 something to-day that would be the end of the hearing so far as that particular matter' was concerned.

Mr MacDonald! intimated: that though .t'hea^., ; W!ere; 1 fpur employers’ assessc v. to two^ ; they would not exercise their on .any ' 7 ’was.necessary. k ' • After v Scorgie mowed and Mr Blayton seconded, that the dispute be referred -to the Arbitration Court The motion was lost.

On the( hih'tihhfq'f , ]llfe|srs' iEfibrgie'??' id MacDonald/ rfc v -Vas unanimously' decided that in order to avoid the exLpense of a further adjournment, and Lin view of the ; fact that negotiations dire pending for a Dominion Engineers’ A yard, the Commissioner withhold the ..notification to' the Clerk of Awards, until October .21, 1932,"that no settlement had been reached, in which case ■the award'would ceasfe from No.yekibejf Ji 22,'' : l932, provided, that, shahid a’’• Dominion agreement be reached prior to that date, to' compafenc®'Operating before that date, the . West. Coast ! .pfifti e's shod 1 d lie free to, put sucli conditions into operation frouj the date of the commencement of' the Dominion agreement. ~ The Commissioner thanked the members cf the Council for the friendly. manner in 'which they had discussedf the dispute. It • was not advisable to arrange a settlement for the West Coast, he said, owing to the fact tliat/the Dominion award, in .which the West Coast was. to be .included, was’ still pending.- The matter was really in the hands of the greater body. ....... • . . Messrs MacDonald and Scorgie thanked the . Commissioner for the capable and fair, manner in which he had. handled) fife dispute.