THE HIGHWAYMAN AND THE TRAVELLER.
EMPLOYERS IN HIGH DUDGEON. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 16, at 9.40 a.m. Melbourne, May 16. Employers are up in arms in connection- with Justice Higgins] remarks regarding economic conditions and employers' powers, when giving an award in the engineers' case in the Arbitration C6urt. Special objection is taken to the Judge's simile of the highwayman and the traveller, as indicating the-attitude of the employer to the woi'kman. It is contended that no exercise of- despotic power could be shown against the employers while the political trades unions not only P9Ssessed, but often used, despotic influence. The owners decided to organise and unite in a public protest against Judge Higgins' remarks. ...
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10767, 16 May 1911, Page 3
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