PRINTING TRADES DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1920, Page 5

PRINTING TRADES DISPUTE.

QUESTION OF PAYMENT FOE . HOLIDAYS. Press Association. ■ ■*. Chrlstchurch, Last Night. the printing trades' dispute was be* |Mm the Arbitration Court to-day. An ' Swmtnt on many joints had been fiehed before the Conciliation Countftjbut iW Court was asked to adjudiate n oflw*. Jangm to the claim for payment for ; frotflfy' Justice Stringer said the (Atfpnwas asking the Court to estabKffe aWg principle. The Court's dea&et not only the printing "jipNwSjtat also all other industries iha Pominion. Itreonld not look on -tifit fefrstry alone when it viewed the ftfflictiioß.' , it wak Asked by tlie Union that ' workers should receive the Ceartft bonus of. 3a a week, and that Httirj machinists and stereotypers be gjven two weeks' holiday per mu#' on full -pay. •BS'^npleyett' eontended that they lutA already, given increased wages more ffow equal to the bonus of 3s now < »«|ed ior wotten workers. As to the {jffbtayi, tfca enstoA was to pay in cases overtime was not paid. They ob- / Upted'to tjie claim for payment for , übdate as a matter of tight, and exto the application for [L weeks' holiday for rotary machinists afif stereotypers. Exemption was gjled m certain rfewspaper establish■ttltti jitt Westland, including WestpoTt, *» flfHtfti. Inangalraa, and Reefton, w ||<& tte Union opposed, on the ground fliki some CoQiitry newspapers were very jJ&fMfoas. increases in the piecework Sghf lorlinotjrpe operators were asked iof, *l*9 tlukt ease-makhg should be IhlhMtji '" tfte tward dealing with bookliljlftrt" Both applications were ob- ' IfirV *" In re R to the latter it that if the demand were colteded many would be thrown on t>«t employment, sad it would be im■•L to' ftftjr on the printing of '' BiasiwoWl Works in New Zealand, and ■ Lg'rtf&fito™ would be brought about in ■ <*■*]] book* in the Dominion. e ■ reserved its decision.