UNIONS AS EMPLOYERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3324, 31 October 1919, Page 3

UN IO N S AS EMPLOYERS.

.__—-o-—-~ ' ;‘€()VEL POSITION REACHED. CHRIH'!‘(')HI.,'RCH CLERKS’ DISPUTE CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 19. It is at frequent Lament of philanlhmpists and :1 by no means ovriginnl -::;_"i::--- ‘Kev.’-_ l:'_b(_n_li' :‘e.l\.rl ("‘.“DlClf,'<“'F< ":"‘ n-.au_\' l\'§ig".lCS a;‘m"C. Even at the Om(_il'::xHr.u table it is found that the distzmce lmtweeu them is unlnoasural3le. Bu‘. paw they are to belbrought to-,'_:-3‘:llel' .<houl«ler to shoulder. The industrial lmions of Christchureli are to be C.§lf(‘a’l ."..-' muplogvers. .".'t will be I'emclnb-ered that some time a_«.§:J ‘J. clerk -‘s guild was formed, and it was decided to present demands to be im'(n[or:lted in an award. Now the local inclust:-ial union.s are to be circlll.‘\l'fS‘ed with an invitation from the C:’.7:l‘('ll.'?lll'}' Em})l3-_V(‘.l‘S’ Association ‘to send r(-pl'esent:ltives_-to a meeting for the pllI‘pOSC of framing counter propC‘S:xl;._~ tn those put forward by the clolrk’g guild. and of nominating assessors for the C'oncilin.timl Council. l A distinctly humorous touch is given by a footnote to the circular, which runs -:l.'< fo110ws:——“In View of the ex~ tra expense entailed by the inc‘~.reasing number of disputes, it is essential. if the Association is to be kept finanr.:inl_. that enxployers should become contril»utin_<__wf members. "

A very I:'l’v'_9,'e numyber of Work-31's will bv :If“i'onfwl by the settlement which is rcitc-hod at the Cr.mc<flia’rion Council or the .«'\rhi?mtion Court. Unionists are :15_1§inQ themselves whothm Frzey can Om')oS(‘ the dmnands of a more-or loss l~:i11d15(3(T“' I;'mrl_v. Pl‘oSllll'lably no -such m=.c.lltu:llil‘y was fol'osr\ml when the union 71:7-11363 Wv3‘l'C, .dl'awn up. Some union s(-metal-ieg who have received the «=ir(-.n]:n'-_\~oenl to, I‘ogal'd iféas rather good joke.»