ARBITRATION ACT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 6

ARBITRATION ACT

INDIGNANT FELLMONGERS. REFLECTIONS ON JUDGE SIM. PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, April 6. A special meeting of the Canterbury Tauners and Fellmongors’ Union was held on Saturday in the Trades Hall to receive the award of the Arbitration Court in its recent dispute with the employers. There were 131 members present. • Some very strong speeches were made. The award, in the opinion of the meeting, is the most biassed and prejudiced ever delivered by the Arbitration Court. Suggestions were made that the union should declare a strike of its members, and should call a special meeting to consider the question. of cancelling the registration cf the union. Those suggestions were not followed up, and after a long discussion it was decided to raise a strong protest against the award as being entirely against the weight of evidence; It was unanimously resolved; That this union hae absolutely no faith in the administration of the Arbitration Act, has no confidence in the President of the Court, and urges-- upon the Minister of Labour the necessity for dispensing wfth the services of Judgo Sim in favour of another loss biassed and prejudiced. A committee was appointed to give effect to the resolntion. AN EMPLOYEES’ QUESTION. IMPARTIALITY WANTED. DUNEDIN, April 6, ■ Mr William Coom, secretary of the Otago Employers' Association, has fobwarded the following telegram to the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, Wellington: The. executive cf the Otago Employers’ Association recommend the Advisory Board of the Federation to at once wait upon the Minister of Labour and ascertain why an employer in Auckland has been so promptly imprisoned for refusal to comply with a decision of the Court, while so much leniency and pror crastination has been shown in dealing with slaughtermen and Blackball strikers, and while the Denniston minors have been allowed to defy the Arbitration Act with impunity. The Zct must either be enforced impartially, amended, or repealed. THE DRURY EPISODE. . RESOLUTIONS OP A PUBLIC MEETING. PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, April 6. At a. public meeting at Drury in connection with the Dixon case, the following resolutions were .carried:— , (1) That this meeting of residents of Drury and surrounding districts appeals to the Minister of Justice on behalf of Mr IV. Dixon for extension of time in which to lodge further notice of appeal against the decision of the Magistrate’s Court, the original notice having been declared informal; and, further, that Mr W. Dixon be immediately released pending the result of such rehearing, this resolution to be followed by a public petition ’ if necessary. (2) That in the opinion of this meeting the finding of the Magistrate in giving his decision in accordance with the finding of the Arbitration Court was faulty, in so much as he should have inquired into the question of whether the man was an apprentice, improver, or journeyman, which apparently was not, done. ... ■ .. , ' COURT SITTING AT NAPIER. . NAPIER, April 6.. The Arbitration Court to-day, took evidence affecting Napier and Hastings in respect to the bakers’ dispute. Several cases of breaches ■of award were dealt with.

In the case of Frederick Lindbacfc v. Phillips and Wright, builders, an application for variation of a compensation award, tho Court held that applicant’s physical Unfitness was due to the diseased condition of his, heart, not to injuries received, to one of his hands. The ease was dismissed. ,