ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 8

ARBITRATION COURT.

' The business which will occupy ihe attention of the Arbitration Court at the forthcoming sittings includes 102 applications for enforcement of various awards, five radustria disputes, arid three compensation cases, and these, will bo dealt in. .the following ordorV . V ; ■ ' , ' . November 4—Enforcements. November 7 —Compensation cases. ' November*. 11—Disputes. .-The.= Court will ' sit. at!' Napier oil' Wednesday, ' November 20, and at Palmerston North on Tuesday, November 26. - - . -INTERESTING .STATISTICS. PROCEEDINGS TAKEN BY THE LABOUR ■ DEPARTMENT. Some interesting statistics relating to the Arbitration Court are containedvin a return to /the -.Legislative .Council yesterday on the motion'of the Hon'. J. T. Paul. The return covers the.period from March 31, 1904, to March 31, 1907 -

Cases Against Employers. In. 1904-5, there were 257. cases' brought against employers; these resulted in 203 ton-, victipris, and 44 dismissals.'-' Ten- eases • were withdrawn. .The;fines:totalled'£s74'.los. '■<' * >In wej? -201 "cases' against employers, 167'..."convictions',-- 20 'dismissals, and 14 withdrawals.. Fines'£s7o.'' In 1906-7.these cases numbered;29s, comprising ,258 v convictions, ,29, -dismissals, 8 withdrawals...-.-Fines -£1025 15s. ~ , , Cases Against'.Workers. ; : 'ln 1904-5 there were 38 cases brought against workers,; 29 c.ojivictions, 8 dismissals, one withdrawal. "'Finds £15. ~.ln 1905-6, the cases' numbered 62. There were .'.46 ' c6nvictidns,V'll'dismissals, and 5 mth^aw(Uß/- t ':FiiiSs>'£22'.', ' ~ •

In/1906, there -were 111 ■ of, these : ases, ■ 101 convictions, 9 dismissals, one, withdrawal; 'Fines .£60,.25/'6d.f ,'''' ; • ' Tho statistics include only the cases , in which proceedings were taken. by the DeWt'ment of Labour.' ' The 'Department's in-' formation > cases. ' brought: by - the unions is not coixiplete. . Ttie'Slauglitcrrtien's Sti'ike. fines imposed-upon' the. men concerned in tho slaughtermen's strike aihounted to £1325, of which £435 19s. was recovered. In the Northern Industrial, .District 46 men were prosecuted ioi; striking, .and all 'were fined. ; Those prosecuted m the- Wellington Industrial District;* numbered' -121, but thoy were dismissed owing to an informality, in tho agreement. Tho strikers, in Cantorbury, Industrial : District r numbered 273; 'Forty-seven of'these,coiild.'not-bo prosecuted,' as they 'had left-'.the. district' one.'.was : dis-' inissed,- not . boing-. a :party to; the\ .dispute, and 221 were fined.