ARBITRATION AWARDS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11955, 6 August 1904, Page 10

ARBITRATION AWARDS.

?s■% QUESTIONABLE UNION METHODS. ' '' *' 'If ■ i ■V {SPEOItI. TO "XHB Pa2BS.") ?■s? ■ DUN'EDIX, August 5. '■•'i Tlie number of trivial cn*es for the ''"£'; -enforcement of awards that has come be* >it <aj(Jre tlw Atbiti-ation Court i» astonishing. two tuM.H which vivi« dismkfted the ■'^ A union was informed that it should have held a conference or referred tho mat:|4p t*f U> the C'lminnan of the (7onciliation ■?Ai' Vttiard before bringing the cases before the ■■$f>!;'.Court. The Presidt-nb epoke to the point <M thiri morning when ho remarked 'The Court : -. : .i> -'"ivistii to say thia. Now that inspectors were, ucling in these inutttra the Court expected them to investigate charges brought by unions and in the fir»t instance decide -whether they werp proper cas«» to be brought bi-roro the Court. It was still ojwn to vnioiiH to bring their own casee into Court, but when a Union brought a ■, tii«e the Court would have to consider for ■what reason it was done, e«eing that inj. #>pector» were available to. investigate 'i proper charges-and bring them before the * Ccmrt. There had been a< certain amount of irritation.in the paet, and it wa* evi- , dent that it wae for the purpose of, allayj nng that irritation that Parliament # had de-elded-'that these cases ehouhl be undert , .<t«le«u by the inspectoral Tlie Conrt •wiahed it to bo underetood that they expe«t«d in tho firat instance that these ' case* would be investigated and, if necee- , euty, brought by inapectora. •:__'■■