ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

v .WATERSIDE WORKERS' DISPUTE. . (BY TELEGRAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION.) ' v.' - • 21. ... During the . hearing ~ of -, the : '. waterside workers'. dispute Mr. Warren, : representing Nelson Brothers' freezing works/ submitted that there was no evidence before the Court to-justify the demands of tho workers. • Ho asked the Court'to give full consideration-to tho depression that,was,likely to-be felt all over the Dominion owing to the heavy fall in tho value of wool, tho unsettled state'of the meat market, and the general tightness, in tho money market restricting financial accommodation;' the' whole Dominion was at present face to faco with a phase of .financial depression which would affect the wholo 'com--munity, but more especially those engaged in pastoral; and industrial pursuits. Eor tho past ; fivo or six years'times had been prosperous, and the workers had received material increases, in wages and more favourablo conditions of labour. . The present phase, of depression had to bo. faced, and -it behoved everyone,to uso more than ordinary care. It, was logical and. just that the workers having .participated in tho prosperity during the past few years'should-share with the employers to . some; oxtont - in\tke bad times which wero now imminent.