ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 226, 17 September 1908, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. The Arbitration Court to-day heard cases of breaches of awards. In the compensation case, Rcgalade Hells v. Union Steamship Company, decision was reserved. The hearing was begun of a dispute between the tlawke's Bay Freezing Workers' Union and the three Ilawke's Bay freezing companies. A journeyman tailor was charged with ii breach of the tailors' award by taking bespoke work from iiis employer's premises to be done in '/us own time. The Court held that there was no offence, and dismissed the case. In their opinion the clause in the award was intended solely to prevent factorymade goods from being sold as tailormade clothes, and there was nothing against a journeyman tailor do'mg work in his own home for employers. Auckland, Last Jsiignt. The new clause inserted by Uhe Arbitration Court in a southern awnrd, providing that in the event of a strike the award should cease simultaneously, came in for some strong condemnation at to-night's meeting of tire Trades and Labor Council. After members had expressed tiheir indignation, in h'ea'ted speeches, in the course of which they reflected On Mr. Justice. Sim, the following motion was carried amid applause:—."That this Council enters its emphatic protest against the strike clause inserted in a southern) award by the Arbitration Court as a deliberate and insidious attempt to destroy trades unionism."