LABOUR LAWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 88, 13 December 1913, Page 4

LABOUR LAWS.

The work performed by the Arbitration- Cdiiri and Conciliation Councils for the yearWuerl Mat'ch 31st, is thuS summarised i'n the advance sheets' of the .Official 'Veav 1 Rook- 1 just issued by !M» iMaicplhi Fraser, , Government 1 Statistician/, under the heading of "Labor Laws":—Awards made, 94; enforcement of awards! .(cases conducted by the Labor Department),! 11; interpretation of awards,' 2,'^;'oVher'decisions (amending awards, adding parties, etc.), -17; appeals from decisions of .stipendiary magistrates •in enforcement cases) 5 ; application for awards refused, 4;-appeal from registrar's decision to refuse registration oi xtxuoii., f 1; cases under the Workers' .Cpuvpen sa Hon 'Act',' 2H r .''' There. VeW -iSn ease;?, ijir.onght' 'before- 'tho^' stipendiary magistrates 'for the enforcement 'or

awards, and 48 rases for enforcement of she, >la\Vi regarding strikes. Of 429 ,ca§t,'s for breaches of awards in which proceedings were.taken try. the Labor Department, 390 were decided in favor of the department, 38 were dismissed, and one ease is incomplete. In seven cases conducted by the unions 'three convictions were recorded, and four cases were dismissed. The number of

cases brought before the Conciliation Commissioners, tip to March 31. -was 118. Of these, 74 disputes were settled by mutual agreement, 23 were partly settled, and 21 were wholly re-

ferred to the Arbitration Court