ENCOURAGING UNIONISM.
MR. JUSTICE HIGGINS'S DUTY. ' D» Tel^craDh—Pros3 Association—Cosrrltthi Melbourne, November 30. In the tramway arbitration case counsel for the Brisbane Tramway Company, addressing the Court, said the employers had asked for justice, not sympathy. Mr. Justice Higgins replied: "Justice to you nleans dictating your own terms." ■i To another remark, Mr. Justice Higgins retorted: "So'hie witnesses are stuffed. They are driven into a pen like sheep, and asked leading questions. That is putting stuffing into , the. mouths of men when they are at your mercy." He added that the Arbitration Act was intended to encourage unionism, and tho manager of tho Brisbano tramways had discredited unionism, thereby disobeying tho Act.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1612, 2 December 1912, Page 5
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111ENCOURAGING UNIONISM. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1612, 2 December 1912, Page 5
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