INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2451, 16 March 1909, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

SITTINGS AT WELLINGTON. (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 15. Breaches of award cases were heard bv the Arbitration Court to-day. Martin, Hun ell, and Snoclden were charged with'having employed a non-unionist •when, unionists were disengaged, in contravention of the carpenters award. It was contended for the defence that the man employed was an expert staircase hand, and received more than union wages. Tho Court was not sat.sfied that equally competent unionists wore available, and dixnii'-stcl the case. In the case .against W. J. Pankshcar, printer, for not paying for The holiday observed on the Prince of \\ ales Birthday, the question was whether inat daj came under the typographical award, not being specifically mentioned. The Court held the respondents guilty of a breach, but as a penalty wrs not pressed for, no order was made. George James Auger was fined £5 for employing non-unionists, and one of the persons employed was fined 10s. In an interpretation case, the Court held' that it was not necessary to employ either -a compositor or an apprentice to pull proofs. The Court ordered, by agreement between the parties concerned, a limitation of liability for six years in the compensation case in which Waiter Gfwillim had. been injured through falling from a structure used in tne erection of a building by Campbell and Burke. The point was that the claim-, ant- had suffered a fracture of the skull, and had been incapacitated up to the present, and the Court was asked to define the period of Lability. William Hurrell was ordered to pay Court fees for employing a journeyman at less than award rates.

In the ease brought by the Carpenters’ Union against McLean and Sons, a friendly action for the purpose of interpretation, the Court held that the work of wharf construction did not come under the carpenters’ award.