ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1920, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

MODERN TAILORS' METHODS APPROVED. ' Mr. Justice T. W. Stringer has issued the following memorandum in connection with the tailors' dispute recently before the Arbitration Court in A T e\v Plymouth:— At the hearing before the Conciliation Council the assessors for the union and the employers respectively arrived at a settlement of all questions in. dispute. At the hearing before the Court, one of the employers, the Modern Tailors, Ltd., objected to the recommendations of the Council in so far as they eliminated two clauses of the award which permitted certain methods of subdividing labor, and under which the company asked that these cluuses should be inserted in the proposed new award. The representative of the company proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the system which had been in operation under those clauses by the company had resulted beneficially for the workers concerned, the employers themselves.and the general public. In these circumstances the court has made the necessary provisions to enable the company to continue the system it had adopted under the terms of the old award. Provision has also been made to enable a'nv other employer to adopt a similar system if he electa to do so. In other respects the award embodies the recommendations of the Conciliation Council.