ARBITRATION COURT.
DUNEDIN, February 7. At to-day's sittings of the Arbitration Court, Mr Belcher continued his address. He said the preference of employment clause had given rise to more controversy than any other clause in the award. The Seamen's Union, ever since the Arbitration Act had been in existence, had been contending for the principle of preference of employment of its members. The Court had not thought fit to grant that to seamen, although there had never been any substantial reason advanced by the Court for not granting the request. The Seamen's Union had 95 per cent, of the men employed in their union and no other organisation could say it had 95 per,, cent, of workers in their particular trade in their union.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7958, 8 February 1906, Page 5
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124ARBITRATION COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7958, 8 February 1906, Page 5
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