ARBITRATION COURT.
FELLAI'ONGEItS’ DISPUTE.
Press Association. WELLINGTON. March 2-1. At* the Arbitration Court to-day, AH- Pryor, acting for the employers in the millers’ dispute, asked the Court to refuse to hear the case. The grounds of the application .were that it only represented a small section of employes at the local meat works. Mr Pryor states that if the Court agreed to make an award in the present case, it would be possible'to form no less than eight otliei unions in the fellmongery branch ot the business, and if the same principle was aplied right through eighteen unions, with eighteen, separate awards, could be brought into _ operation. After discussion the. Judge said the Court did not consider it would he instilled in refusing to heal the dispute itself, which was not objected to by the employeis. It we find workers coining here piecemeal, however,” he added, “we will probably find it, necessary to refuse to make an award.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 26 March 1908, Page 2
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158ARBITRATION COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 26 March 1908, Page 2
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