QUESTION OF APPEAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 162, 22 April 1942, Page 4

QUESTION OF APPEAL.

ARBITRATION COURT DECISIONS. (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. Concern has been expressed by the executive of the Associated Chambers of .Commerce at tlie decision of the Federation of Labour Conference to , support a recommendation that the Government legislate to make decisions of the Arbitration Court final ana not subject to appeals to other courts. This is shown in a letter, a copy ot hfis 7 'lieeiCfteheived"by the Can'lerbury Chamber from the executive, „to the Prime Minister. “It appears,” the letter adds, “that decision of the conference was actuated by certain rulings of magistrates and Supreme 'Courts which appeared to the Federation to be adverse to the interests of the workers, and that because of this the Labour Conference deemed it desirable that the decisions of the Court of Arbitration should be placed beyond the possibility of challenge. We cannot refrain from commenting on the shortsightedness of such a view. It may be that other decisions by the Court of Arbitration may favour the employers, and if the recommendation made by the Federation were carried into effect the workers would be deprived, at their own request, of that right of appeal to a higher tribunal which is a fundamental and inseparable part of our system of British justice.”