“GREAT SUCCESS”
JUDGE ON ARBITRATION. The President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Powers) said recently that so much had been uttered and written about his court, its functions, its principles and practice, that was misleading and inaccurate, that he felt it his duty to say that tho court had been a great success from the point of view of 90 per cent of the employers and employees. It was the other 10 per cent that made . trouble. Looking back for twelve months, during which, said Mr. Powers, frequent attempts had been made to discredit the work of the court, there had not been one strike started, nor one lock-out in any industry over which the court had any jurisdiction. But very many industrial strikes had been prevented by the court. The only inter-Statc strike in existence 12 months ago was settled at a compulsory conference. called by the court, and an agreement was subsequently reached at a court conference. The coal industry was not subject to tho court’s jurisdiction. __ __ If one of the court’s functions was to promote strikes, it had miserably failed. If one of its functions was to endeavour to prevent strikes, it had been wonderfully successful.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1922, Page 7
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