ENGINE-DRIVERS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1143, 26 March 1910, Page 4

ENGINE-DRIVERS.

JUDGE REFUSES TO ADJUDICATE

|8V KI.KOTIUC TKIjEGBAVP OOJ'TKIHHT.J

tPEH I'RESH ASSOCIATION.!

Melbourne, March 25. ilk Justice .l-fjjwins lias g.iyen his decision in the Federal 'Arbitration G;;urt in the. engine-drivers' dispute, which was practically an outcome of the Newcastle strike.

The Judge found 'that the matter was 'brought before him, not because the claimants had the same dispute in three of the jStates, but because New- South Welshmen despaired of obtaining justice firom the New South "Wales Wages Boards, and in order to come before the Federal Arbitration ■Court they had got men from other States to'subscribe to the demands. That, he ventured to say, was not with an idea of settling disputes beyond the one State, The employer in this case had shown no desire to ■conciliate the men. If the circiimstances otherwise showed that conciliatory action was desirable, aud that ■employers had obtained but a ---rr-hic ■victory, they had solely themselves to ■bliiine. They were suffering from a-'be-wildering number of Boards in New South Wales with bewildering crossing 'functions apart from the question of jurisdiction. He. thought that further procedings were not necessary or justifiable in the public interests, and therefore refused to adjudicate.