CANNOT HAVE BOTH.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14136, 9 June 1919, Page 5

CANNOT HAVE BOTH.

Strike and Arbitration. AN OUTSPOKEN JUDGE. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] fAust. and N.2. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Last Night. In the Federal Arbitration Court, Mr Justice Higgins, reviewing the position created by the refusal of the Seamen's Union to take a. ballot on the question of resuming work, pending arbitration, and after enlarging upon the substantial concessions given to the men under the new log of April, declared that he adhered to the policy that the union must not have arbitration and a strike too. If he were to arbitrate and failed to grant all the men's representatives asked for, the men might not man the ships. He declined to act under such pressure. His hands must be free. Mr Higgins added: The attitude of the men was—“ Here are our claims, will you grant them?" He could only say that if the employers granted the claims undpr such conditions they and the community would rue the day. Those favouring direct action would point to gains thus achieved, and the same kind of stand and deliver demand would be made again, and soon.