WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2560, 22 July 1909, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES.

BREACHES OF NAPIER STEVEDORES’ AWARD.

NAPIER, July 21. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day*, Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., heard the case of the Inspector of Awards v. the Union Steam Ship Co., a claim of £25 for a breach of the Napier Wharf Laborers’ and Stevedores’ nvavd, m that the defendant company d d employ a wharf laborer named Daniel Casev, president of the Wharf Laborers’ Union, on May 31st. to work on the st-tamer Waikare, and at 1 o’clock on the same day did dismiss him from their employment because such worker was er titled to the benefits of the said aw a d. The Magistrate, in giving judgment, said he was satisfied from evidence that Casey had been told to go a:boie. and not allowed to work localise lie had demanded an hour for rs dier.tr. but the matter did not stop there. Casey was subsequently told by another officer to resumo work, and did so. Ti atwaived his dismissal. It seemed, however, that besides Casey, one or two others in No. 4''gang had objected to resuming work before the expiration of the dinner hour to which they were entitled under the award. It was here that the dismissal took place, if there was one. It seemed to i v ’s Abrsliip that the men of No, 4 gang woie sent aslioro because one or two o' them had raised the question of dinner lionrTliat was a sceoud dismissal. r j he breach of the award had not b-*<-n a serious one. The Union Comixauy were not in the habit of doiug what was now alleged against them. Proomy the officers were 'anxious to ,<< t the ship away , and were angry when the »en insisted on their full meal hour, instead of half-an-Lour. He was of the cjmion that the men's request for a full hour, seeing that they had worked since G o'clock in tho morning, was a reasonable one. and that it was made in a reasonable manner; that both sides had lost their tempers, and that, as a result, the men of No. 4 gang, including Casey, were dismissed sooner than tney would have been had they not insisted upon the privilege to which they were entitled under tlie award. Judgment was given again the defendant company *r-r y£s,. with costs, - £5 12s. In other cases, fines were imposed on the bVairoa and Moliaka Steamship Company and four wharf laborers in connection with the engagement of laborers at other than the recognised place. GOLD-MINERS’ DISPUTE.

fPEit Press Association.] i GORE, July 21. The Conciliation Board V met this afternoon in commotion with a dispute in the gold mining industry, the Otago and Southland Miners’;',* Industrial f Union being the applicants, and the / Employers’ "Union and others the re-J spondents. The application of sluieeri was heard first,' and it was agreed t 4 practically renew the old award for bhljk year. As regards dredgers, the bltjßJß award was agreed to\ with the- l excejJPwi lion iof the clauses relating to prof jgg#f enee for unionists and the mimir wage, consideration of which was served till to-morrow, • iMfr