ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13855, 19 March 1907, Page 5

ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

UNION'S REGISTRATION CAN. CELLED.

Presa Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. SYDNEY, March 18. (Received March 18, at 10.15 p.m.) Tliß Arbitration Court to-day cancelled the Wharf Labourers' Union registration for refusing to admit four men who during the recent trouble were, engaged by the steamship-owners to take the place of unionists. When the trouble was settled tho owner's discharged the men on the ground that the unionists would not work with thou. The men then applied for, and were refused, admission to the union. The president of tho court considered that cancellation made it doubtful whether the union retained power to enforce the recent agreement entered into with the shipowners, though it did not affect the owners' puwer to enforce it; but it seemed to him that the owners were quite willing thai the men should have a. monopoly of the work on the wharves, and shut out anybody they liked, so long as the employers themselves were not inconvenienced. It seemed that tho employers were, tacitly, but quite knowingly, parties to a course of conduct which it was the intention of the act to forbid.