ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 548, 1 July 1909, Page 9

ARBITRATION COURT.

- ' (By .Tolegraph.-yresa 'Association.). -I- | Dunetlln, Juno 30.1 I . Tho Arbitration Court hold a brief sitting | .this; inornirig, ..and- 'recortled ■ a..breach ii\ .tho carters';, award-,sagainst- James Crust fir •failnre to pay proper wages.' Breaches of tlio assistants'j' award ; were recorded against It. Moffatt, James Jordan, : and H| R. Gill; who:.acceptcd less waijes t'uan prw scribed from A., and J. M'Earlane, 1 grocers,! i'who wero previously fined in the Magistrato'si v. Jnspectorr'-iLo vCren -sought :ani mtorpretationjoh the point ..whether acceptance of less-l wages constituted a breach. Mr. Barclay, solicitor, representing, tho respondents; mentioned that, a-plea, of'infancy had been tendered in i respect. of, Moffatt. and - tho caso had been withdrawn . from tho Magistrate's Court. Ho contended that -if ..the plea applied m. the Magistrate's .Court, , it.- applied 1 m ' the'"Arbitration .Court.-" Mr. Justice 'Sim.riiled .that, a: plea, of -infancy was no' answer .1 at all in tlio matter Jdf; acceptance' of a wage.'; The Court a fowfjears, ago; had, acted ,gn tlioji viow that. an ■ award that /fixed * a ""minimum? wage andvimposcd on employers the duty -of, paying that wage, .also .imposed on workors the - duty of contract for . and: receiving that wage; . . T^e 1 . Court- would not disturb : its*