BAD LOSERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 209, 25 August 1908, Page 2

BAD LOSERS.

THE CAVTUiBUKV l'AKii wolucEKs' 'dispute. JUSTICE M.U"fc> KE.UOVAIj DEMANDED. By Tclejrraph.—Press Association. Christeluircili, Last Night. A special meeting <ji tlie executive of the J<'arni Laborers' Union was held on Saturday evening in the Trades Hall to consider the deeisftrn of the Arbitration Court. The following resolution was unanimously carried:— "That this U'nion, seeing tihat .Mr Justice Sim has refused the farm laborers of Canterbury an award of the Court, and being convinced thai sueh a decision could only have been come' to

after a complete disregard of the filets proved in the evidence, and by an unreasonable and invincible bins against the workers, demand tlio immediate removal of Mr. Justice Sim from the Arbitration Court bench, and, further, this Union desires to express its strong conviction that actions manifesting such ingratitude, incompetence, and weakness, as are to be found in the decision made, constitute a grave menace to the industrial welfare of the Dominion.'' The secretary was instructed to forward a copy of this resolution to the trades councils, trades unions and labor organisations of the Dominion, urging them to pass the resolution and forward it to the Minister for Labor, and to the local members of Parliament. Jt was decided to issuo a petition, and to canvass for! signatures from one end of the Dominion to the other, asking tire immediate withdrawal of .Air. Justice Simfrom the Court bench. It was resolved to invite trades councils, trades unions, and labor and progressive organisations to support the petition. The question of placing the lull facts before the country workers was fully discussed, and 'it was "unanimously resolved to immediately send three paid organisers into the country to hold simultaneous meetings 'in South, Mid, anil North Canterbury. ■Similar resolutions demanding t)he removal of Mr Justice Sim were adopted at a meeting of the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council on Saturday night, and at an open-air meeting held under the auspices of the Political Labor League yesterdaj.