ARBITRATION COURT.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11967, 21 June 1907, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

Napier, June 20. At the Arbitration Court cere today a rather important point cropped up on the question of profit-sharing. In a typographical case the Union representative raised the question whether a newspaper proprietor would not be compelled to produce his books to show the profits of buainess^so as to base wages on the pro-tit-sharing principle. Judge Sim said it was ridiculous to expect the Court to take profits into consideration in fixing wagps, for if that were done, and in one district one employer lost money, and in another made large profits, they would have to fix different wages for each. Perhaps they would be askad to average it, which would be unreasonable. The Court would not consider profit-sharing at all. The Union representative said such an opinion struck at the very bnse of the Act, and rendered it useless to them.