ARBITRATION LAWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 9, 4 February 1909, Page 2

ARBITRATION LAWS

EMPLOYERS STIFFLY FINED. By Telegraph.'-Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Dr. MeArthuv, S.M., sitting under authority of the new Arbitration Act, heard a number of enforcement of industrial award cases to-day. Donald McDonald, butcher, was fined £lO for employing a non-unionist; F. Chittendon, butcher, for employing more youths than allowed under the award, was fined CIO; Clapham and Co. were lined X'HI for a similar offence; IL Ransom, builder, was fined ,-ClO for employing a non-unionist when members of | the union were unemployed; C. (.!. R. I 'McNee. charged with a breach of the /preference clause of the builders' award, <md with not paying wages weekly, was fined CIO on each charge: J. Odlin and Co.. for employing <\ greater proportion of as»i-ta.nts to journeymen than proscribed in the plumber*' award, were 'filled .C 10; P. Wootton, butcher, was

fined ,C 3 for paving an employee less, ban stipulated in the award; the em- j ployee in question was fined 10s; Peter j I daiwen and Son, for failing to indenture j i«n apprentice to the furniture trade, j wire fined CIO; (IritTiths and .Tones, plumbers, were lined CIU for underpaying an employee: Mrs. A. ffoily, restaurant keeper, was lined 30s on" each of two charges for underpaying employees. Defendant had paid the stipulated amount since being summonsed, hence his Worship's leniency. l<\ Asher-

•man, hotd proprietor, was fined CIO 'for 'employing a night porter longer than the stipulated hours and for fail-j ing to pay overtime rates; Standidage and Co.. painters, were fined .C 3 for failing to pay certain employees within the .time stipulated by the award; the Xont.'hale'l A-phalt Co. was lined 13 for em ploying a non-unionist when unionists were vailable; J. Siandidage and Co., for dismissing an emplovee because he -was entitled to tl>** beuefit of an award, .were fined £5.