"APPEAL TO CAESAR"
CUT AND WATERSIDE
EXEMPTION CLAIM
THREE GROUNDS RULED OUT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. In consequence of the Arbitration Court ruling out three of the four grounds on which the Waterside Work-ers-Unions of Auckland and the province applied for exemption from the 10 per cent, cut, the .hearing of the case ended abruptly this morning after two hours, whereas it had been expected to.last, two days. " The Court ruled that three of the union's grounds were grounds for use when applying for an ordinary award. Mr. J. Roberts, secretary of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union, protested strongly, asserting that the Court had not kept its promise made. at the hearing in Wellington of an application for a general order. "The Court has now placed me in tho position that I must appeal to Caesar and Caesar means the men themselves. Our award lias nearly -run out. My own hope is that we will not have to trouble the Court for another award. The employers arc rushing to get another agreement. Wo are not rushing with them. If there are any difficulties, you gentlemen on both sides will have to take the responsibility." Ho said ho would consult his men throughout New Zealand, and then.tell the Court at tho Wellington sitting whether or not he would withdraw the whole ease. Mr. Justice Fraser said that the Court must administer the law as it lound it. Ho regretted if there had been a misunderstanding. He did not think that Mr. Roberts had been harshly treated. .-.-.■■ In declining to admit evidence designed to show that there was increased casualness in the work on the waterfront, Mr. Justice Frazer said that if the Court did so the general, order for wage reduction would be nullified because every union in the country could bring evidence of.it. In making the order the Court had based its decision only on the Dominion's reduced revenue. The wage cut might'have been thirty or forty per cent, instead of ten. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 6
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