STRIKES PLUS ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 7

STRIKES PLUS ARBITRATION.

. ' • . " $ '-V " AN; AUSTRALIAN, • Ok. jtino 29, tho Arbitrati6n_-.Coutt ;of iNe®': South. 'Wales,; which next- dayv.wentr.oui: of: existence, delivered its final judgments ,?Th<s case' was an' made-by the Sydney /Kiintersfcllniohlaftor: it had been' for some time on strike,-against tho Court's award. One.-paasßgoi,of:.:Judgi Heydon's judgment'.is appropriate for quota,-, tion just now. ' r - "/ '.' Olio of the general considerations,"V'hV said, '.' which has always weighed witli tho Court is that the employers, .not having been exposed to a strike, and h'aving riresirved the continuity of their buSinessj&jyeKrtions;'jiavc :l received a. benefit which,ait-some'.iases', might. : | be not/unfairly shared-by vthom workmen; But when tho'"employers:; ha W been exposed to tho jtoarroind inconvenience; of a and have ■ during;:samel months' of loss arid inconvemencc';rofusod:tb'yield»t<j: tho claims m'ado whit" reason can the men; appeaLto :tlfb' Court tfor. inoro than tho employers .a^-readyitt)'-.givo" them? One can imaginer'an :'em iplo£er::sas- - ' Well, this Arbitration-* sAct j"'is -bad enough, but at, any rate .it'.'used ; to -save" us from a strike; but if now.:wo > tho evils of a strike, added v tt>-all'tli<S oWls of litigation, before the Arbitration-Court;Our last state is w'orso than our^first./..1f .-we are to.liavo a strike, lot us';fight? it.out, and abide by tho result; but if we aro to havo a strike, and, aftor a successful resistance and considerable money'loss,' find tho workman pull the ArbitratiMi Court out of his sleovo, wo think it is "rather too much' Such an employer niight'-'wcli: adopt tho remonstration of tho liegrd)'-"convict', when lie found himself being lectured by'•tho' 1 judgo: 'If floggeo, floggeo'; and if - preach6e,"']Wtobh@&' but no floggeo and preached too:-' Tlio'ijjien themselves' must soo that if th"oy v c6me to this Court only after liaving/% c6ndflct : .tfliicli' the Act declares to'bea v misdc'meaiiojir; 1 'put the employer's and tho trouble which this Court'~was 'iriteii'dod to prevent, they immensely weaken-their'bdsi'' tion."