ARBITRATION COURT.
iPbb Press Associatio.i».) DUNEDIN, November 22 At tho Arbitration Court, Justice Edwards made some remarks in re'er.T.ce to giving preference of employment to unionists. At. one time he had doubts as to the power of the Court to give such pre ference, but he found these doubts were not shared by other Judges, and probably his own view was ill-founded. If the Courb had not this power there was a very read; mode of deciding it, but if it possessed the power and refrained from exercising it, there would be no remedy. He did not think it. possible to work the Acr unless such power existed, but it need r.ot necessarily be exercised inasl easel. ln many cases such preference- sheuld not be given and it has been refused in ■ eriain cases The mere fact "that the power <-xistec\ Was deterrent on employers, and induced enongh to visit on unionists their dissatisfaction with the fact (hat there was no in dustrial dispute which they fancied had been fostered by particular men.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 23 November 1899, Page 3
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