ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 370, 26 February 1937, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

Unions Dissatisfied with Decisions.

Trades unions in Auckland continue to express dissatisfaction concerning the Arbitration Court, and at a meeting of the Amalgamated Engineering and Allied Trades’ Industrial Union of Workers a resolution was passed touching on the subject. .

“In consequence of the consistently unsatisfactory decisions of the Arbitration Court,” read the resolution,

“this branch of the union has no confidence in the Court as at present constituted. Therefore, we request the Government to remove Mr Justice Page, president of the Court, and to appoint in his place a president who can be relied upon to guard the interests of the workers by giving effect to the spirit of the industrial laws enacted by the Government.”

Members of the union, it is understood, are dissatisfied with certain provisions of the nev‘ award, and attempts are now being made by a disputes. committee in Wellington to remedy some of the anomalies which are considered to exist in the award. In addition representations.* have been made to the Minister of Labour, the

Hon. H. T. Armstrong, urging him to intervene in an endeavour to secure a revision of the award. The dissatisfaction has arisen primarily as a result of the classification of trades into first and second grades, certain exemptions from the 40-hour week and apprenticeship provisions ana the widened scope allegedly given the employers with respect to the employment of youth labour.