CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 13, 16 June 1913, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

j cabinet maimers'Dispute. ' Thed- Conciliation ' Council at' on Frjiday -to' hear ia dispute ik>dged ; - by f the employee* in cabihetmikingiindustryt'The Oommisstdnfer for the f Wellington!district ?(Mr; P.' Bally)' ■presided, and the assessors were -as foltows :'4-Emplojers/ 'iMessrs. - 'j£-' Hayden 1 andvcE.-DingleT (New."Plymouth)' employees, Messrsj'N. Smith (Wellingtbh), George Richardson-vi^New-.-Plymouth), -and D: Moriarty (Wellington). • The employeesfare pra<#ica]ly rasking foe the adoption ' of *' the wellihgtoh award, which makes provision a44 holirs' week, "work" 'commencing at 7.30 and finishing at, 5 ; o'clock on .fiye' days, and from 7.30' to ' hbpn on Saturdays; all] classes of. workers,in the.furniture trade to be paid is|4y s d per hour; overtime to be paid alj usual ,rate;, ordiii-, A.rbitration'Cburt' awards' tb'apply in j regard to. .apprentices 1 ;, pr/ovision to beimdd'e for uAder'-ratp and incompetent - wdrkers • ■ and. a preference clause to be ■inserted • ■•■ '■' ■-• ■ ••' - : '

Mr. Haydeft; for tlm employers, asked' fojj an adjournment", for-a- month. He complained that the employers had only been cited jf rrday, ,and'it totdfbeeri, utterly iinpbsaible, "in 'such : a la'rge'dis*-" trict as Tarana|?l,...fp.r, ( ,yiem..to..hold a meeting to lodge counter-claims and to appoinf ; 'a?§?S3.qrß.'s; ;; : /r v ;'.Y*■; ; , v ';.;''. . £fter v a short discuswoa, the Com-, mijssiqner adjourned, the > sitting until ,Vyfedneßday,,4uly 2, at 10.80 a.m.