AUCKLAND FURNITtRE TRADE DISPUTE.
ARBITRATION COURT PROCEEDINGS
[Pfr Pbkss Association.]
AUCKLAND, April 22. At the- healing of Iho furniture iraih. dispute i o-da-y counsel for the applicants replk'd io the a/;'gunimt.s of counsel for the other side. Mr Tole submitted that the Court was not concoiriwd with the Eng-lisli law or common law. The Arbitration Court made its awards, a.ud could enforce, them.
His Ho7ior, in the course of Mr Tole's address, asked how long an employer was bound to keep fully competent mm employed.
Mr Tole replied that an employer was so bound in^the ovont of an award raising the minimum wages from Is to Is 3d if he wanted the men.
His Honor wiid he had aeked th<^ question because in New South. "\Valt_ there was a clause, in the Arbitration Act which mer- tho difficulty, an employer bejng liable to a penalty of £20 for dismissing a, man because of an award by the Court.
Mo." Tole said J;o wa.s dealing with a body of men aiofc one instil, a.nd it. had k.?n proved that tiho men were dismisvod, a,!tlioush their work and ljcaiches were ready for them.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7686, 22 April 1903, Page 3
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191AUCKLAND FURNITtRE TRADE DISPUTE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7686, 22 April 1903, Page 3
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