ARBITRATION COURT
AN EXTRAORDINARY REQUEST.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. At the sitting of tlie Arbitration Court to-day, President Cooper made some remarks with regard to tlie oft-discussed question of preference to employment of unionists. One of tho demands of thePainters’ Union asked when a nonunionist was engaged by an employer, on account of the Union not being able to supply a man of equal ability, within twelve months thereafter the Union .mid have the right to supply a man, pri, ,7ded the person first employed declined to join the Union; this to apply to non-Union men now employed. His Honor, referring to this, said he would never be a party to the insertion of such a clause in any award. This would compel a workman to join the Union or else lose his employment, and would be neither right nor just. Preference would be granted to members of a Union which had an open door, but not to such an extent as this demand asked.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 273, 27 November 1901, Page 2
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