"A PYRRHIC VICTORY." FEDERAL ARBITRATION COURT DECISION

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 5

"A PYRRHIC VICTORY." FEDERAL ARBITRATION COURT DECISION

ENGINE-DRIVERS' DISPUTE. By Telegraph. — Press Association.— Copyright. MELBOURNE, 25th March. Mr. Justice Higgins gave his decision in th» Federal Arbitration Court in tho engine-drivers' dispute, which was practically the outcome of the Newcastle strike. ' The judge found that the matter was brought before him not because the claimant* had the same dispute in three States, but because the New South Wales men despaired of justice from the New South Wales Boards, and in order to come to the Federal Court got men in other States to subscribe to their demands. That, he ventured to say, was not the idea of settling disputes extending beyond one State. The employers in this case had shown no desire to conciliate the men. If the circumstances were otherwise, it showed that a conciliatory action was desirable, and that the employers had obtained but a Pyrrhic victory victory in which the loss of the victor is as great as that of the vanquished). They had only themselves to blame. They were suffering from n bewildering number of boards in New South Wales, with a bewildering crossing of functions. Apart from the question of jurisdiction, he thought farther proceedings were not necessary or justifiable in the public interests, and therefore he refused to adjudicate.

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