CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 191, 21 January 1915, Page 4

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

PAIN CESS' AND DECORATORS' DISPUTE. Under the presidency of Mr T. Harle ji! Conciliation Council met at the Town Hall yesterday to hear a dispute between the Tara.na.ki Painters' and Decorators' Industrial Union of workers, and Messrs Beilringer Bros, and 73 other Anns engaged in the painting and decorating trade in the TaranaJu district. The assessors for the employers were Messrs C. D. Sole (StratT or £''„ . olm Wlllde (Hawera), and P. a J. Bellnnger (New Plymouth); and for the Union Messrs William Bourne (Waaganui), William Shephard (New Plyra^ U .l ) TT n ' nd ? arr y Vo K ht (Stratford), jk i r moTL c^a^ms baaed on tne last award and deviating from it very slightly. The Council spent the moimng m hearing applications for exemption from several dairy companies in the district, the New Plymouth Har- - a id others, and was occupied during the afternoon in tlhe hearing evidence on the main issues, After a very amicable conference, an arg e emcnt was arrived at by the Council, the principal provisions being a [ tfiree years' agreement tc a minimum wage of Is 3d per hour, subject to a revision at the end of six months if trade (onditiois improve; compulsory prefertnce to unionists, but tlhe union to bear t.ne onus of proving fihat the employee is a umonUt, the employer merely notifying the union of the worker's engageExemptions were granted to the dhirati, Stratford and Tariki dairy tympanies, their representatives giving an assurance that the companies would not employ other than permanent employees in painting work; also to the Ijew Plymouth Sash and Door Timber Jjo. and the New Plymouth Harbour Poard.