ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1550, 5 September 1905, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

OASES FALL THROUGH.

’(Per Press Association.) Invercargill, last night. All the trade disputes before the 'Arbitration Court to-day went by the board through failures of the unions to follow the procedure sot down in the Act. The carpenters failed to cite all the employers [in the district. The butchers made tbe mistake .that the Court has so frequently animadverted on, viz., resolving to bring a dispute and taking a ballot on it at the same meeting without circularising every i member and allowing an interval for consideration. The union was said to be moribund. The President also made a pronouncement on the common practice I of resolving, as in the butchers’ case, to take tbe dispute direct to the Court of Arbitration. The disputes should first be sent to the Conciliation Board by resolution ; that done, it would be in order to move the matter into the Arbitration Court if thought fit. His Honor said tbe Court had tried in every way to impress I the parties with the necessity for following I tbe Act etrictly, but everywhere they went I tbe same defects cropped up. He referred f specially to the Auckland decision, pub- ‘ ltshed in the Book of Awards, vok 6, page 108, also in the Journal of Labor, dept. 9. An application tjo have tho Dunedin painters’, award extended to Invercargill failed because tbe masters in all outlying townships were not cited, although they frequently came into competition with those eought to be bound.