ARBITRATION COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7943, 5 October 1905, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct'. 4,

At (lie Arbitration Court Levin and Co. were summoned by the | Cooks' and Stewards: Union for a breach ot award, in that they employed a steward on the steamer Himitaugi at £8 per month, being £2 less I than the wage fixed I>y award at the Court.

For the defence it was explained that, the man was entered as an ordinary steward to look after the officers and passengers ; and only about twelve of the latter were carried in a year. He was not employed to do the duties of chief steward. The award, provided for the payment of chief stewards and assistants, and no provision was made for cases where one steward only Was employe:!. The Court held that the steward must he included under the high sounding title of "chief steward," It was also pointed.out that if would have been competent for respondents to have employed one man as cook and steward and an assistant, at a total remuneration of £l4, whereas they now paid a cook £lO and a steward £B. The Court imposed a penalty, of £lO and costs.'

The Court was engaged during the greater part of the day -in hcarinc Implications for the enforcements of ral '*! s, 1 one case an employer, who had employed a non-unionist when unionists were available, was told by the president that the employers ought to be ashamed to come to Court on such charges, as so manv similar cases had been heard. A firm of'grocers was*fined £10 t a„df £5 on two charges of failing to pay the minimum wage, and not paying OVC r-