ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16614, 9 December 1919, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

A LITTLE BREEZE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 8. At the Arbitration Court to-day, during a discussion in the typographical dispute, Mr. A. N. Robbie, representing the Typographical Association, said typographers had come to the conclusion that the worst countries as far as wages were concerned were the two that, had compulsory arbitration, New Zealand and Australia. He made the remark in regard to a possibility of considering the cancellation of their registration under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The president, Mr. Justice Stringer, said : “Your observations are a covert threat to the Court as to what would ho done unless you get something more .satisfactory. If you come nowin that way I warn you that we will not discuss this question any further. Be good enough to remember that, if you are going to make statements to the Court that you will wait and see what the Court will do, and that if it is not satisfactory you will cancel your registration. If you mean that, Mr. Robbie ” “I did not mean that, your Honour.” The president; “If you mean that 1 will dispiiss this application at once. I won’t allow you to make use of the Court to say that if you are getting anything from the Court that is not satisfactory you won’t be bound by it.” ‘Mr. Robbie; “IYe will loyally abide by the Court’s decision, and I am sorry the Court got that impression.”