Validity of Award

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 2

Validity of Award

HAWKE’S BAY REPLY TO MR. P. M. BUTLER. (Spoeial to “Times.”) HASTINGS, Last Night. The following statement has been made by Mr. C. Jennings, secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Labourers’ Union, regarding the comment made by Mr. P. M. Butler, secretary of the Wellington .and District General Labourers’ Union, on the validity of the agreement entered into at the sitting of the Conciliation Council at Napier last week: “First,” said Mr. Jennings, “Mr. Butler challenges the Hawke's Bay Labourers’ Union’s right to cover local bodies, but in a previous publication in the form of a letter to the editor, he definitely stated that the Hawke’s Bay

Union covered the Napier and Hastings Borough Councils. Further, no employer and employee during the Conciliation Council hearing expressed an honest and sincere desire that the award should be governed by the local union. “I would further point out that it was largely due to an award made by Mr. Butler in 1935 in Wellington that in the general labourers’ section of the dispute recently heard in the Conciliation Court in Napier no finality could be reached,” said Mr. Jennings. “The Employers’ Federation'a representatives used as an argument that particular award and the union appreciated the unfortunato position that tho employers were placed in.”