LABOUR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 169, 31 July 1901, Page 3

LABOUR MATTERS.

«, PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, JuXT 30. At the Arbitration Court, it was intimated that a rase against Mersrs Bel) and Company, of tr-e Match Factory, for a breach of award had bten settled. the company agreeing to take back a girl who had been discharged, and not to discriminate in future against members of the union. In the butchers' case the Court refused an app'ication by the Union to •mend an existing award by regarding a boy as equivalent to a man for certain lands of work. An application by the Wellington branch of the Federated Seanuu's Union for enforcement of aa award agaiis* Meseis Richardson and Company, ef Napier, was withdrawn after it had been made clear that the grievance was not against the firm, but agaisst a cap ain not now in tbeir employ, and after the Court bad expressed an opinion that for the purpose of the ezist'ng award, the Wellington brar ch ■rood on the same footing as any other Union. The Conciliation Beard bas bow spent several days on a dispu e in tb> painting trade, most of the time being taken up with questions of who should and who should not be made parties to an order of reference. To-day there were a number ef lively paisagf s-at-arms between members of the Beard, the chairman, employers, and the Union represents ives, -which culminated in the chairman threatening to have one person ejected. The employers charged one section of the board of being actuated by partisan feeling. The latter lesponckd that the employers were conspiring to spin out the proceedings.