ARBITRATION COURT.
WAGES OF GENERAL LABOURERS. [BT lELKGIUPU — I'IIESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, This Day. The Arbitration Court to-day took' the dispute between the Dunedin and Suburban General Laboureis' Unicn and the employers of Duncdm ad suburb?. Mr. Scott, instructed by the Builders' Association, the Drainage Bourd, the City Corporation, and the Mornington nnd Roslyn Municipalities, raised the question of jurisdiction, on the ground that the matter of the ways for general labourers had been dealt with when the dispute was before the court in November, 1906. Tho president said the court held that ii possessed jurisdiction in the present application, which was made by the General Labourers' Union to tix wages. They j \ thought tho construction to be i>ub on the award of 1906 was that it fixed only the wages of pick and shovel men in work for building contractors, and it was Ihcrc-for-o quite competent for the. Labburcrs' Union to come to the court and ask for an award. Evidence was then icad, after which the court took time to consider its award. i
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 8
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175ARBITRATION COURT. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 8
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