ARBITRATION COURT
JUDGE COOPER ON PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Wellington, Tuesday. At the sitting of the Arbitration Court today, the president, Mr. Justice Cooper, made some remarks with regard to the oft discussed question of preference of employment to unionists. One of the demands of the Painters' Union asked that when, a nonunionist was engaged by an employer on account of the union not being able to supply a man of equal ability, within 12 months thereafter the union should have the right to supply a man provided the person first employed declined to join the union, and that this should applv 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 hi 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11822, 27 November 1901, Page 5
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