THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1921, Page 2

THE ARBITRATION COURT.

NORTHERN MINERS’ AWARD. ——-* By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Dec. 22. In the Auckland coal miners’ dispute, the court, in a memorandum, states that in preparing the award it had endeavored to adhere to the spirit of the general conditions of the national agreement of 1920, in so far as they applied to the northern industrial district. The rates of pay had been fixed as nearly as possible on the basis of* 1914 rates plus 50 per cent, to pieceworkers and 60 per cent, to time this was the intention of the national agreement. The increases provided for in the national agreement appeared to have been based on the food prices current in January, 1920, when the increase over the. prices in July, 1914, was 57.76 per cent. Provision is made in the award for referring disputes which cannot be settled by the union executive and the management of a mine to the district disputes committee, work to be continued in all respects pending a decision of the* committee. The adoption of the <f go-slow” policy or the holding of stop-work meetings without the permission of the manager at any mine will be regarded as a breach of the award, and all participants in such a breach will be liable to dismissal in addition to any other penalties to which they may be liable.