Labour Disputes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7917, 5 September 1905, Page 3

Labour Disputes.

Unions Ignore liie Procedure. (Per Press Association.) LVVKHCAHGILL Sept. 4. All the trade disputes before the Arbitration Court to-day were sent by the Hoard through fnilures of the I'nioyis to follow the procedure set down in the Act. The carpenters failed to cite all the employers in the district. The butchers made the mistake that the Court has frequently animadverted on, viz., resolving to bring a dispute and taking a ballot on it at the same meeting, without circularising every member, and allowing an interval for consideration. The I'nion was said to be moribund. The President of the Court made a pronouncement on the common practice of resolving, as in tho butchers' case, to take a dispute direct to the Arbitration Court. Disputes should fust be sent to the Con ciliation Board by resolution ; that done, it would be in order to move the matter into ' the Arbitration Court if thought fit. His Honour said the Court had tried in every way to impress parties with the necessity for following the Act strictly, but everywhere they went the same defects cropped up. He referred specially to the Auckland decision, published in thd Hook of Awards, vol. (1, page 108, also in the Journal of the Labour Department, No. 9.

An application to have the Dunedin painters' award extended to Invercargill failed because the masters in all outlying townships hail not been cited, although they frequently canie into competition with thoso sought to bo bound.