POWERS OF AUSTRALIAN ARBITRATION COURT.
> -(It Euctim THJOiara-OoniwiT.) (Pn Prim Amocutkui.) Received September 5. 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY. Sept. 5. The High Court delivered an important judgment relating to an alleged dispute between the Merchant Service Guild of Australasia and various steamship proprietors, and involving the question of the Kwers of the President of the Arbitration urt to determine matters in which an aasumedly statutory course came before him. The Court declared the president was entitled to exercise his jurisdiction in a threatened, impending- or probable disfute without awaiting an actual dispute. t also held that it was not * necessary ingredient of an industrial dispute that pre-existing dissatisfaction should be known or communicated to the employers. Then as regards the officers of seamen of oversea snips it ruled that the Arbitration Court might award fixed terms and conditions to be incorporated in agreements in the service between shipowners and the Merchant Service Guild, such terms and conditions to be enforceable at law even though the ships traded outside its territorial jurisdiction.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9589, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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170POWERS OF AUSTRALIAN ARBITRATION COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9589, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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