ARBITRATION COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10580, 8 October 1910, Page 1

ARBITRATION COURT.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, Octoboi 7 The Aibrtration Court was occupied in the dispute, concerning the Auckland blanch of .ilie Amalgamated Society 'pf Engineers and Emplojcis. Mi Evans, representing the Voikers, stated, that all eomWin. dispute had been* settle'd b_y the assessors, fbut the Society rnadvfirten% JJ qmitted to, make a recommendation for the limitation of apprentices. "Thte Umoriy hpw fever, w ere dissatisfied with the agreement made bj the' agse'ssdis. " * "'Judge SinTp'omted out that in agreeing 'to and'-secoud class cntrmedrs tfls 4s'd and Is 3d" art hour respectively the Union ( had ' piactically consented to a decrease of wages' The cmployei was the judge of the woiker s qualifications, and could declaic a man ollj a secoud-class worker liiey would have been Dettei to offei to work under the old aw aid Mi Evans asked the Court to review the whole case He admitted -the* assessor were appointed by the Union Mr Scott (for the employers) Hien the Union is, going back on its asMt Caucus, picsldeiH of the Society, >T*d tlic\ weic willing to accept the old aw aid with the elimination of two Mi Knox Slid the omplojeis undcistood i complete settlement had boon amved <H _ ih Justice Sim said the Court ius ml bound by the iccommondalion fho object was to get a umfoim ,iv.ud ici the Domm-oii, which could not be seemed by having diflciei.t lates of wa*ges The vanous mitteis iaii,cd would b'e considered