ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1915, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

IIETAL WORKERS' AWARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. Application was made to the Arbitration Court by the employers to-dav to amend the engineers and boiler-makers' dominion awards and the Otago and Canterbury metal worker*' award, all of wliirh contained a provision reserving to the Court the, right to suspend or vary the conditions. Mr. Pryor said the information available showed (hat the extra cost to the employers as the result of the awards mentioned would l>o at least £211,000 per annum; engineers .C20.0M). boilermakers MOM and metal workers ;C3.">of>. These figures would, of course, require proper investigation. ile felt if they were found in any wav nearly correct the. Court would 'be justified in reviewing the situation. The hearing is proceeding. TARAKAKt PAINTERS' DI.SPI.TK. The award of Mr. Justice Stringer in the dispute of the Taranaki Painters ami Decorators' Union lias been received at the New Plymouth Court. After setting out the award at length, his Honor adds a memo random stit ; ng tlmt the award is based for the most part on the recommendation-; of the Conciliation Council, which the parties agreed to accept. The preference clause in iif the form whuh the parties ag'T \1 on, and the Court does not see lit f i alter it. cxn pt the clause which orovi !o; that no worker engaged on work on his own account or for any pri.il.:■ firm in any blanch of the Irade should cease to be a member of the union and should he rc.'idiniUod for three months after the expiration of his last job. Th.s clause the Court has no power lo in-< rt. and has struck it out. The clause providing that no employer in any trade whu.iever ihouhl lie exempt Ironi tinaward who employs u journeyman in any work has been .-truck out for ihe same reason.