ARBITRATION COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

Wellington "Dominion" remarks that! reasonableness, and a capacity to coe | more than one side of a quection affecting labour, arc unfortunately! rare things in delegates to Labour) conferences. It is all the - more necessary, therefore, that acknowledgment should be made of exceptions to this rule. The other day the Trades Councils' Conference was asked to pa.-:5 a strongly-worded motion censuring 3fr Justice Sim's treatment of union representatives at sittings of the Arbitration Court and affirming bis responsibility for a large numbe; of tii" cancellations of union regHt«':U.<m. Several members of the conference insisted against the motion that the Judge always treated the union representatives properly, and ,one of them Mr W. W. Naughton, put in a timely protest against those who expect that the Court must alwin s give concessions. He also very prop:- -ly insisted that if the conference, wished to object to Judge Sim as the wrong man for the post they should say so plainly. We are glad to note that he expressed the opinion, which wo are sure is ;, ';e opinion of The best of the union leaders, that the President should be a Supreme Court judge. An Otago delegate's objec-

tion to the motion was the simple but convincing one that it was not a truthful motion. Although the motion was rejected only on the chairman's casting vote, we are cure that the conference did a good thing for the' Labour cause by letting it be seen that they are a minority in the "Labour movement" who fancy that every-

thing—public, Legislature, Court, am' Judge—must bow down before the greater dignity of union officialdom.