UNIONISTS AND AN AWARD.
STRONG COMMENTS. BY TELEGRAPH —PEESS ASSOCIATION". CHRISTCHURUH, April 6. At a special meeting of the Canterbury Tanners and Fellmongers' Urion, held on Saturday evening to receive the award of the Arbitration Court in the recent dispute, there were IS4 members present. Strong comment was made by members on the award which was characterised as the most biassed and prejudiced ever delivered by the Arbitration Court. Suggestions were made that the Union should dcqjare a strike and call a meeting to consider the cancellation of the Union's registration. Ultimately the following resolution was passed — "That this Union has absolutely no faith in the administration of . the Arbitration Act, has no confi- ' dcnce in the president of 'the court, and urges upon the Minister of Labour the necessity of dispensing with the services of Judge Sim in favour of another less biassed and prejudiced." A . committee was appointed to give effect to the resolution.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9059, 7 April 1908, Page 5
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156UNIONISTS AND AN AWARD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9059, 7 April 1908, Page 5
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