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Return showing Cases dealt with under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, etc. — continued. Industries affected. Industrial District. Industries affected. Industrial District. Award*—continued. Awards— continued. Brickworkers (Tyneside) .. .. Westland. Coal-miners (New Zealand Coal and Oil Ironworkers (Greymouth) .. .. „ Company (Limited), Kaitangata) .. Otago and Typographers „. m ~ , Southland. Wharf labourers (Greymouth) .. „ Drivers (Dunedin) Ditto. Bakers and pastrycooks .. .. Canterbury. Engine-drivers (traction and stationary) Boot trade operatives (male) .. .. „ ltave •••• • • .. Boot trade operatives female) .. „ Gold-miners (dredgemen . . „ Coaehbuilders Grocers assistants and drivers (Dunedin) „ Drivers (Christchurch)' '.'. '.'. "„ \ Hairdressers'assistants (Dunedin) .. „ Engine-drivers (traction and stationary).. „ Iron and brass moulders .. .. „ Furniture trade , Painters (Dunedin) Hotel workers (Timaru'and "' Painters (Southland) Iron and brass moulders .. .. „ Paper-mill workers Mataura) . . .. „ Musicians (Christchurch) .. .. „ Plasterers (Dunedm) .. .. „ Musterers and packers .. .. „ Plumbers and gasfitters (Southland) .. „ Printers' machinists Printers machinists Tailoresses, machinists, cutters, and , Storemen (Invercargill wholesale merpressers (in factories) .. .. „ ! _, < rj lants ' " •• •■ ". Tailors and tailoresses (in shops) .. „ lailoresses machinists, cutters, and Timber-yards and sawmills employees pressers (m factories) .. „ (South Canterbury) .. .. „ limber-yards and sawmills employees Typographers „ _ (Otago) „ Woollen-mills employees .. .. „ typographers .. .. „ Bakers and pastrycooks .. ..Otago and : Woollen-mills employees (Otago) .. „ Boot trade operatives (male) .. .. Ditto" '" ' ' BuUn 9 Commission®-of Conciliation re Wages, Hours, Boot trade operatives (female) .. „ " nd other Conditions of Labour. Coaehworkers and wheelwrights .. „ Fishermen (trawler " Phantom" ) .. Wellington.

Applications for Awards heard by the Court in which no Award was made.

Trade. District. Particulars. Bakers and pastrycooks. . Wellington In this case the workers' association applied to the Court for directions in regard to the procedure to be followed in order to obtain a Dominion award under the provisions of section 4 of the 1911 amendment to the Act. The Court advised the association to abandon its attempt to obtain an award under the provisions of section 4. Tho procedure appeared to the Court to bo so complicated and confused that months would probably have olapsed before the hearing could bo reached. The Court recommended the association to have proceedings taken by the local unions in the industrial districts concerned, for the purpose of obtaining local awards in the usual way, and then, as there appeared to be no objection to having the whole case heard in one centre, the hearing of all the local disputes could take place in Wellington. The Court would then be able to make uniform awards for the industrial districts concerned, which would, in effect, be a Dominion award. (The Court's recommendation was carried out, and awards have since been obtained as suggested above.) What purports to be an agreement arrived at between the workers' union and the employers had been forwarded to the Court, with a request that the provisions of it should be embodied in an award. It, appeared, however, that no steps had been taken to have the dispute heard before a council of conciliation, and the Court therefore held that it had no jurisdiction to embody the alleged agreement in an award. In this case four employers were the applicants. An application for cancellation of its registration as an industrial union had been made by the workers' union, and it was postponed by the Registrar by reason of the supposed pendency of the conciliation proceedings. It appeared, howevor, from the proceedings in the hearing of the dispute that while the dispute was filed by the employers before the filing of the application for cancellation the commencement of proceedings under section 73 of the 1908 Amendment, deemed to be when the assessors for the hearing of the dispute are appointed, was subsequent to the filing of the application for cancellation. The Court had jurisdiction therefore to made an award, but refused to do so, on the ground that the union had legally been entitled to cancellation, and for tho reason that the ovideneo showed that the union and the employers employing 90 per cent, of the labour affected by the dispute were opposed to the making of an award. An application made under section 3 of the 1911 amendment to the Act, to doclare an industrial agreement an award, was refused on the grounds (a) that tho term for which the agreement had been made was in excess of the limit allowed by the Act—-i.e., three years from the date of making of agreement; and (b) that the evidence did not prove that the agreement was binding on employers who employed a majority of the workers in the industry to which it related in the industrial district in which it was made. The Court further expressed an opinion that it would be useless to make any further application under the section in question until it had been put into an intelligible shape. Brewery and Maltsters' employees Canterbury Waterside workers Northern (Auckland) Waterside workers Northern (G i s - borne)