ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1916, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

I SHEARERS' AND AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' UNIONS. By Telegraph.— Press Associat'on. Wellington, Yesterday. The Arbitration Court delivered judgment in regard to an application to adjust the tcims of the Wellington shearers' and shed-hands' awards, and the Hawke's L'ay shearers' agreement by joining as a party thereto the Wellington Agricu'irural Pastoral Workers' Union in substitution for the Wellington Shearers' Industrial Union of Workers. The conclusions of the Court wcie summed up as follow: Under Section 5 of the prineripal Act, an industrial union of workers must be limited to workers engaged in a particular industry or in two or more related industries. Under Section 20, only such unions can properly amalgamate as are related t» the same industry. t'ndei section 23, an industrial association must oe confined to industrial unions of particular or related industries. Industr al associations can only be created and properly constituted uni.ns. Alterations in the constitution of a union eannot in effect be. a mere change ot name Under Section 2of the' amendment to the Act of 1910, the New Zealand Agricultural Pastoral Workers and the Industrial Association of Workers were not legally constituted associations. The Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union, and the i,nions in other district' similarly constituted, were not legally constituted unioi.s. . The defects in the constitution of the above association and the union.? canrct be cured by registrations iu(U-r the Act. The judgment also disposes of the appU: Mons filet' ;a Mju-i'.jA'ougb and Canterbury,