WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, 5 September 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

POWERS OF ARBITRATION COURT

[By Electric Telegraph—Corymcurj [United Press Association.] (Received iO.lo'a.in. ) Sydney, September 4. The High Court delivered important judgments relating to the alleged dispute between the Merchant Service Guild of Australasia and the various steamship proprietors, and involving the question of the power of the president of the Arbitration Court to determinate matters which in an assumed. ]y statutory course came before bim. Tho Court declared that the president was entitled to exercise his jurisdiction in a threatened impending or probable dispute without awaiting the actual dispute; also the-Court held tha! it was not a necessary ingredient of an industrial dispute that pro-existing dissatisfaction should bo known or communicated to the employers. Then, as regards the officers and seamen on oversea ships, the Court ruled that the Arbitration Court might award fixed terms and conditions to be incorporated in the agreements of service between the shipowners and the Merchant Service Guild, such term." and conditions to be enforceable at law even though the ships traded outride the territorial jurisdiction.