EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 24 May 1907, Page 2

EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

I'IiOTKNT AGAINST WUKKIA KMPI.OV.MEXT PIifXOII>UC. l'cr Press Association. Dunedin. May -'!• A ir.L'cliny of. till' (Hago JOmplD.yer.s' A-.s< ciation was held tu-i!ay. w'lien tin l w.'riviary (Mi-. \V. Scott I, addressed members un the. trend of matters in coiin.-ction with the administration lit (lie Arbitration Act, as indicated in tlic recent rulings and awards ul' Court. The only resolution tliat was passed had reference to the award, which was heard | before it at its last sittings in Punedin, "(h it this meet inn views with alarm the innovation introduced l>,v the Court in liie felt hatters' trade, ill which the prin-t-bile of weekly employment has been embodied in the iiward', and {'ranted to worker.-, in the manufacturing trade, workers win are in receipt of overtime | rates; and, further, that this meeting is uf opinion that the industries of the Colony have now more tliau they can bear.'and that if additional burden is iiliced upon I hem. in shape o! a lull week's pa v. whether worked in whole or part, it will undoubtedly nipple ina'iv of the struggling industries, and be to the detriment of ail workers and felled to the New Zaland tlinployeis Federation with, a view to concerted ac lion being taken to protect, tile indus fries of (lie Colony from any addition-.! burdens.''