ARBITRATION COURT

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14235, 9 December 1919, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT

IMPLIED THREAT RESENTED

JUDGE'S PROMPT REPRIMAND

TO A UNION SECRETARY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Monday.

In the Arbitration Court to-day, during a discussion in the typographical dispute, A. M. Robhie, representing the Typographical Association, said the typographers had come to the conclusion that the worst countries for wages were two that had compulsory arbitration —viz., New Zealand and Australia. He made a remark in regard to the possibility of considering the cancellation of 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 be done unless you get something more satisfactory. If you come now in that way I warn you that the Court will not discuss this question any further. Be good enough to remember that if you are going to make a statement 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 Honor." The President: "If you mean that I will dismiss 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 he bound by it." Mr Robbie: "We will loyally abide by the Court's decision; and I am sorry the Court got that impression."