PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13377, 19 March 1909, Page 7

PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.

' " (PttESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) *™ AUCKLAND, March 18. * too remarks made by Mr Justice Sim w< we Arbitration Court at Wellington fr Tuesday, in speaking of the question •Ipreference to Unionists, have excited interest among employers. *•• president of the Auckland Provin--s** Employers' Association (Mr I). Goljw), in conversation to-day, said: —"It JMttS very evident that employers will '£n compelled to fight the question of puereiice very much moro stringently ?B»n heretofore. There are, no doubt, * treat number of Unionists who are Jjt first-rate workmen, and very many tOB-Uniomsts who are good tradesmen. 'ft * past, so long as one could show J*t the person engaged was a hotter "wesman than those whoso names Jwe on the books seeking employment, 1?* 9° nr ' an d inspector were satished, **t if a new order is to bo instituted, Sγ" 1 unnHxliate action must be taken. £ H? * na^^r ' m fact, is already oecupyt |J5 the attention of the New Zealand Federation in tho direction ■ **, preventing pi-eference trom being P»at«l. If in spite of our protests \. Sweronco is granted, we shall have- to •' l (SID consider the position, with a vie-.v c finding a remedy to save ourselves ' "we having forced upon us so-called , jWKimen who are not competent to i ' Wu one-half of the wages fixed by the