AN IMPORTANT POINT.
NO COMPULSORY UNIONISM. Wellington, May 5, Tlio Appeal Court gave its decision in Maguer v. Cohns, involving [lie question of whether the Arbitration Court has jurisdiction to insert in an award a provision amounting to compulsory unionism. The Court was unanimous that the Arbitration Court had no such jurisdiction. It held that before a Court could insert such a provision -the intention of the Legislature to grant such power must be indicated with irresistible clearness and that the present statute did not so express the intention. >The Court however, held that the Arbitration Court had jurisdiction to grant preference to unionists.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1547, 6 May 1916, Page 2
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104AN IMPORTANT POINT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1547, 6 May 1916, Page 2
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