Monopoly to No Class of Men For Any Particular Kind of Work

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 9

Monopoly to No Class of Men For Any Particular Kind of Work

Reed. 10.9 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. rpHE Commonwealth Arbitration Court, oh an application by the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union that an agreement reached with the employers in which is a clause providing for preference to members of the Storemen and Packers’ Union should be made an award by consent, Chief Justice Dethridge said that, provided he paid a fair thing for it, au employer should be free to get any man to do his work. It did not matter, he said, whether

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a man belonged to one union or another. He declined to sanction a principle under which any class of men would have a monopoly in respect of any particular kind of work. A man should be free to do any work, and his employer free to get any man to do the work, provided fair wages were paid. Then, stating that there was no objection in cases where the employers had consented, Mr. Justice Dethridge allowed the preference clause in certain cases, but eliminated it in others. —A. and N.Z.