ARBITRATION C0URT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 97, 22 April 1903, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

THB FORNITUBB O VBR. PKE PRKSS AMOOIATIOH. Auoklikd, April 31. Tha furniture trade case continued before the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr Tyson, S-cretary of the Furniture Industrial tJnion, proceeding with hi« ovidenbe. The evidenoe of several '-orbmeu was also heird c'osing the cs<i agaicstthe employers. Mr Oampbell, addressing the Court for tie employers, contended the applioa'ions did not disclose any brdich either of avvnrd or Uio Aot Nothing in the Aoi n.ade it compulsorily for an employer to continue in his employment any man. The whole finding depended on whether the discharge of the men was legal or illegal. i His Honor said in common law then ' was nothing to preveut tn employer ft- m licking-out all his meii or to p tvent men from striking, but he m-kd if under tbe New Zaid and Aot there was nothing to prevent employ* ployets looking men out. Mr Oampb II an<i tha employers right to tffeploy o' whom he pUased wm not a(l<joted by the New Zealand arbiuratioQ laws while a dispute ma not pend* »'*■

| Mr Goiter also &4dresu>d the Oourti, c< nte >ding that thn charge did not d tfeli se »ny offence and <he evideoot h d n>t shown thit any ofienoe wu c m u.itted. Tha application tint th* Court should drcUre oer'ain thing! a trexch of thn and asking for tha i Sitition cf a p nalty, for prior comiu of such breach was staggering t • uuyone aooustomed to the administration if law.