ARBITRATION AWARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2314, 6 October 1908, Page 2

ARBITRATION AWARD.

POWER OF THE COURT.

[Press Association*.] CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 5. At .a meeting of. the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council on Saturday night a legal opinion was submitted to the meeting on the questions of the power of the Arbitration Court to insert the erike clause in awards. The opinion stated, inter alia: “I im of opinion that the union bound by the award is without redress so far as an appeal to the Supreme Court is concerned. At all events, . the Arbitration Court is acting within the scope of its jurisdiction,, though it may be exercising that jurisdiction harshly and oppressively to the parties who ire the subject of the award.* In inserting the terms a, b, and c, it was within its jurisdiction, though it may he the case that a Court differently constituted would not have used its powers as the Court has done in this case'. In place of attempting to invoke the aid of the Supreme Court, which must result in expense and failure, the council might think it well to endeavor to secure such amendments of the Arbitration Act now before Parliament as would protect unionists from clauses of the character which have been invoked m the preparation of the a-ward under review.”