ARBITRATION COURT

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1675, 16 February 1906, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT

SEAMEN’S UNION NOT SATISFIED.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, last high:

The following resolution was unanimously endorsed at a general meeting'of the Seamen's Union held this evening “ That this meeting express its astonishment at the terms of award of the Arbitration Court in the oase of .the Seamen’s. Union v. the Union Steamship Coy and' other ship owners, and is emphatically of opinion that tho dooision of the Court has not the slightest relation to that justioe whieh we have been led to expeot from a judical tribunal. In view of the obviouß impossibility of securing an award based oh the right of evidence adduced, we consider it useless to spend further time and money on Arbitration Court proceedings.”

SYMPATHETIC RESOLUTIONS. (P®r Pretsd iksuboiatioa.) Dunedin, last night. The Otago Trades on 3 Labour Counoil passed the following resolution to-night: That the Council notes with regret that Arbitration Court so often seemingly ignores evidence placed before it,and frames its award totally at varianoe with that evidence, the latest example being in the Seamen’a Union dispute, and further that Council specially deplores the refusal of the Court to grant preference in faoe of the faot that over 90 per oent of the seamen are members of the Union, and that this Counoil extends it sympathy .to the Seamen’s Union for the unsatisfactory award given in faoe of stoog evidence plaoed before the Court in the Union’s favor.”