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[BY BlißOiniO TELEGHAPH--(JOPYRIGHT] [PHR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 11.45 a.ra JUDGMENT RESERVED. SYDNEY, This Day. Tho High Court has reserved judgment in tho steamship companies' appeal in tho Merchant Service Guild case. A JUDGE ON EMPLOYERS JUSTICE. MELBOURNE, This Day. In tho tramway arbitration case, counsel for the Brisbane Tramway Company, addressing the Court, said that the employers asked for justice not sympathy. Mr Justice Higgins replied:— "Justice to you means dictating your own terms." To another remark, 'Justice Higgins retorted: "Some witnesses iare stuffed. They are driven into a pen like sheep. You ask leading questions, and that is putting stuffing into the mouths of the men when they are at your mercy." He added that tho Arbitration Act was intended to encourage- unionism. Tho manager of the Brisbane tramways had discredited unionism thereby disobeying tho Act .
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 November 1912, Page 3
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141Australian Cables, Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 November 1912, Page 3
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