AUSTRALIAN LABOUR TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9714, 26 March 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR TROUBLES.

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Melbourne, March 25. Mr Justice Higgins gave his decision in the Federal Arbitration Oourt in the enginedrivers’ dispute, which was practically the outcome of the Newcastle stride. The Judge found that the matter had been brought before him not because the claimants had the same dispute in three States, but because the |New South Wales men despaired of justice from the New South Wales Boards, and in order tc come to the Federal Oourt got the men in the other States to subscribe to their demands. That he ventured to say, was not the idea of settling disputes beyond one State. The employers in this had shown no desire to conciliate the men. The circumstances showed that conciliatory action was desirable, and that the employers had obtained but a pyrrhio victory. They had only themselves to blame, They were suffering from a bewildering crossing of functions. A part from the question of jurisdiction, he thought further proceedings were not necessary or justifiable in the public interests, and he therefore refused to adjudicate.