ARBITRATION COURT.
r DUNEDIN, yesterday. A dispute haring arisen between the Otago Painters’ Industrial Union of Employers and the Dunedin Painters’ Industrial Union of AVoikers and other employers in Dunedin and suburbs. and efforts to arrive at an amicable .settlement haying failed, the Union of Eipnlpyejs has referred the case to Court. Twenty-three euinloyees, in addition to the Union of ‘Workers, have been cited by the Union of Employers. AUCKLAND, yesterday. At a sitting of the Arbitration Court yesterday Mr. J ustice .Sim had occasion to remark that the Court did not fix wages on a profit-making basis. Under ■ such a system men would have to go without wages if there were no profits. The Court should endeavor to give the men fair remuneration for their work, regardless of whether the employers got a profit or not. Profits could only be taken into consideration in extreme cases, where an increase in wages would wipe out the business. The employees’ representative on the Bench remarked that frequently if file Court gave what tho men asked for the men would in consequence bo walking the streets.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2119, 29 June 1907, Page 2
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184ARBITRATION COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2119, 29 June 1907, Page 2
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