ARBITRATION.
NO JURISDICTION OVIiR FOREIGN SHIPS. ' BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. : ; - Sydney, April 16. The' High Court has decided that tho Fedoral Conciliation and Arbitration Court has no jurisdiction to settle disputes as regards wages and conditions of employment on foreign trading ships.
This decision by the High Court is in accord witlv an.. opinion given by Sir Edmund Barton when Prime Minister of the Commonwealth in IBo3—that while : Australia, in her Navigation Bill, very ■ properly dictates the terms on which lier coastal trado was to bo enjoyed, including the payment of local rates of wages, She conld not, on the other hand, give tho Arbitration Court jurisdiction over deep-sea vessels without doing violence; to international law _and nsage. Ifr. Kingston, formerly Premier of South Australia, and then a'member of Sir E. Barton's Cabinet, still insisted that the provision that coastal wages should bo paid on' British or foreign \essels engaging in coastal trado should be, put not into tho Navigation Bill but into tho Arbitration. Bill. Sir E. Barton was firm, and' Mr.' Kingston resigned.. Now Sir E; Barton is a member of tho High Court that affirms, his decision as' Premier.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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