Canterbury Chat

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 77, 30 August 1912, Page 4

Canterbury Chat

AMONG THE UNIONS.

At the last meeting of the Cantor* bury Metal Workers' Assistants' TJWoft the sum of £3 Ss. was voted to assist the family of th© late president of th© Moulders' Union (Mr. T. Freeman). In Mr. Freeman the Moulders' Union have lost an earnest and conscientious worker, and his place will be hard to fill.

It was decided to contribute a further sum of £10 to assist th© women and children at Waihi and Reefton, and a motion was tabled to be dealt with at next meeting that the union contribute th© sum of £1 weekly to the sam© fund.

The local foundry which is trying to evade the provisions of the sheet metal workers' award is having a sorry time, and to date has not been successful in getting men to fill th© vacancies of those dismissed.

Applications have been filed by the New Zealand Typographical Federation and the New Zealand Lithographic and Letterpress Printers' Machinists' Federation for a Dominion award, and the parties have agreed that th© case b© heard in Wellington some time in September.

The Canterbury Typographical Union and the Canterbury Printers' Machinists and Bookbinders' Union have decided by ballot to amalgamate, and a combined meeting of both unions will be held shortly to elect officers, finally adopt rules, and to pass the necessary resolutions to effect the same.

Word has been received jbjrifa© Print"©rs' MMimstß , '" ; meeting of delegates representing the Auckland Printers' Machinists' Union, Lithographio Union, and the Book* binders, Paper Rulers and Cutters' Union has decided to recommend its respective union© to amalgamate under Section 20 of the I.C. and A. Act, and from reports received before long the whole of the printing trade will be organised into one union in each industrial district with the whole belonging to one Federation.

The Canterbury Rattan and Wicker Workers' Union has written to the New Zealand Furniture Trade Federation and the Dunedin Furniture Trad* Union, urging upon them th© advisability of the whole of the rattan and wicker workers in the Dominion being amalgamated with th© United Furniture Trad© Section. Th© replies received to date are sympathetic, and that steps will be taken to comply with the request.

At a meeting of the Taratahj Meat Works Employees' Union, held last night, the following resolution was carried :—"That the union deem it necessary, owing to the victimisation of two prominent members of the union, to notify all kindred unions to ask their members to refrain from making engagements at the Waingawa works till further notice."—F.E.