LABOUR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 68, 20 March 1903, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES.

THE AUCKLAND DEADLOCK. I Per Press Association. Auckland, March 19. | The Furniture Trade Onion of Employers hive instructed the Union's solicitors to defend the charge of breaking th 3 award. The numb it- of workmeu out i»f employment is now reduosd to about 40. Ohristchubch, March 19. The Furniture Trade Union has decided to make a levy of 5s a we k in aid of the men involved in the Auckland dispute. The first levy was made this evening. Dunedin, March 19. At an open meeting of the Trades and Labor Council this evening, it was resolved to take strong objection against many, of the reoeDt awards of the Court on the grounds: —(a) That conditions have been introduced which were never solicited by either party to disputes which are decidedly in favour of em ployers; (b) that diS'irc" preference is given to employment cf juvenile labour to the detriment of adults; (c) thit whore preference to unionists has been given the other award conditions are ruch that it is ab'olutely unworkable; (d) that in dangerous occupations where machinery is used wages are fixed according to the age of the operator and the oocupa'ion ignored thus increasing the risk qf accidents; that the Inspcc'or of Awards should be appoints with powers similar to those of "the Factory Inspectors ; that the Premier be urged to maintain the existing constitution and status of the Arbitration Court, and to insert a clause in the Act preventing etrikes or lock-outs during the currency of awards. |