LABOUR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 103, 27 April 1903, Page 2

LABOUR MATTERS.

AUCKLAND FUBITURB AWARD. . BTORM IK A TKA OUP. SBNjIBLE BBMAKKB BY TIB JUDQi. CISB DIBMIBSBD, tta FfUCSS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, April 26. In thi furniture award the Judge seated that the inference was that a number of employees were suspended partly through tbe slack se >B3O and partly through inoomprttno* to earn the increased minimum wage, pending ob aiuiog permits to work at a lower wag". No discrimination wu shewn be*ween Unionists at>d noo- ' (Jdo iis's in the selection of the men ' suspendrd, and there was io no seose a itck-ou f , nor was there any ground to 1 infer that the acts of the employers 1 were intended to injure the Union, or ' for any other pu-poae than the regulation of the OompinyV business. This «pp'ied to Touson Garlick, and the D.ti.U., both applications being distuisse I. Th-i case u gainst tie Employers' Union for assisting these firms was also dismissed. Judge Cooper added that in his ' opinion the matters giving rise to tbsM > applications were dotted with nomeriti d importance, b-ing treated as it th-y w< re taising questious of great public inter/ st. 8 ripped of all imagery ' and irrelevaocey, tbe whole matter was ' reduced to proportions which amounted 1 to this: -Of 250 or 300 workers, 17 were suspended by two companies ia ' the ordinary regulation of their busin 83. He entirely disagreed with cjuds'l that the eflh&cy of the Indus- • trial Coaiiliation and Arbitration Act ' wt» oi is trial, or that an ad vers i decision to applicants would emasculate > th.i Cour/s award acd destroy the ' effiae icv of the present system of settling di>put«>. He did not doubt the Oourt'x power to *-ifeotively etiforoe th* ' rue intnu*-, meaning, and spirit of the titatuie. Mr SUte!*, the member of (ha Court representing the workers, ! onaideiing the evidence disclosed a ' co .cert ( d br ac'i of the award. Mr Brown, representiog :he employi e>s, concurred with th? decision.