AUCKLAND SOFT GOODS DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 17, 19 July 1918, Page 8

AUCKLAND SOFT GOODS DISPUTE

■In connection with, the *decision of the Mcldand Soft Goods Employees' Union to^file another dispute, owing to the fact that the Arbitration Court refused to grant an award recently,'the question hits arisen: How, long can' a union do that sort of thing? If the Court refusee the second application, can a third \>4l filed? ...If the. Court refused a dozen applications cofilcf a thirteenth-be filed? There is nothing, in' the..lndustrial Conciliation and-, Arbitration .Act to prevent such a' procedure. .J\ It is not-suggested that the AuckTa"hi,;.'TMon ; "intends to adopt the course ■;■ 'It it. did it^might incur th"c displeasure-... of the Court, which might then ieel inclined to se^ek protection from section 86 of the principal Act, which reads: "The Court m&y at any time, dismiss any matter referred to it which it thinks frivolous or trivial, and in such -case the award may b& limited to an- order -upon the party bunging the ca6e before the Court for payment of costs of bringing the same."