THE FULL COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20764, 9 July 1929, Page 10

THE FULL COURT

TOBACCONISTS AND HAIRDRESSERS’AWARD. ARBITRATION COURT THE DEFENDANT, (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 8, t The Full Court, consisting of Mr Justice Myers (Chief Justice), Mr Justice Herdman, Mr Justice Adams, Mr Justice Blair, and Mr Justice Smith, was engaged this afternoon hearing the case of Arthur Edwin Butt, of Invercargill, tobacconist, Vivian Simeon Jacob, of Dunedin, tobacconist, and the Dunedin Tobacconists’ Industrial Union of Employers (plaintiffs) against Mr Justice Fraser, Mr George Thomas Booth, and Mr Alexander Lament Montcith, members of the Arbitration Court (defendants). The plaintiffs are moving to have the Dunedin, Oamaru, Gore, and luvercarcill tobacconists assistants’ award moved into the Supreme Court and certain parts thereon examined and quashed by the court. The award was made on March 4, 1927, and. by a subsequent order made on March 12, 1929, the Arbitration Court altered the terms of the award to the effect that all persons employed as assistants in hairdressers and tobacconists’ shops within the area affected by the award must become members of the Otago_ Hairdressers’ and Tobacconists’ Assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers; that all such assistants not becoming members of the union should bo dismissed from employment, and t.Tat only members of the union be employed by such tobacconists and hairdressers.

The employers are attacking the alterations of the awards on the grounds: (1) That they did not consent to the order varying the award, and such consent was necessary by law; (2) the alterations were beyond the jurisdiction of the Arbitration Court {inter alia), because the provisions amount to the creation of compulsory unionism; (3) the order places an unwarranted restriction on the employers in the choice of employees. For the plaintiffs Mr J. F. B. Stevenson appeared, and for the defendant Mr F. W. Ongley. The court adjourned, and the case will be proceeded with to-mor-