ARBITRATION COURT.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13375, 17 March 1909, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEUKAM.) WELLINGTON, March 16. George Head, for breach of the preference clause of the carpenters' award, was ordered to pay costs incurred by the Union. Head complained that the man he employee! joined the Union tlie following day. He contvidered he had been pounced upon by tho Union like a cat on a mouse*. A charge against the Gear Me.->t Company of employing non-unionists when members of the Builders' Trade's Labourers' Union were available, was dismissed', as the company was not included among the parties to tho award. Decision was reserved in a ease against Humphries Bros., chargeel with breach of the carpenters' award in employing a non-unionist in preference to a capable unionist out of work. It wos con tended for the defence that the workman concerned was a superior ar tisan whose equal could not be found among those whose names were on the Union's unemployed book. It was contended, moreover, that the man hae? resigned, from a union because it was run by a clique of incompetents.