FARM LABOURERS' DISPUTE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9174, 25 August 1908, Page 5

FARM LABOURERS' DISPUTE.

DEMAND FOR MR JUSTICE SIM'S REMOVAL. BY TAI.EGEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH,'August 24. The special meeting of the executive of the Farm Labourers' Union on Saturday evening carried unanimously the following resolution: — „ "That this union, seeing that Mr Justice Sim refused the farm labourers of Canterbury an award of the court, and being convinced that such a decision . could only have been come to after complete disregard of the facts proved /in evidence, and by an unreasonable and invincible bias against the workers, demands the immediate removal of Mr Just;ce i Sim from the Arbitration Court bench; and further, this union desires to express its strong conviction that actions manifesting such ineptitude, incompetence, and weakness as are to be found in the decision made, constitutes a grave menace to the industrial welfare of the Dominion."

The Political Labour League held an open-air meeting on Sunday in' Cathedral-square and passed a resolution aa follows: — i "That this meeting of Christchurch citizens, seeing that Mr Justice Sim refuses to grant an award to the farm labourers on the ground that it might arouse the resentment of the farmers, declares its strong conviction that he is unfit to occupj a position on a judicial bench of this Dominion, and hereby demands his immediate removal from his present position." The Trades and Labour Council on Saturday night passed a resolution in the same terms as that passed by the Farm Labourers' Union. The latter I body has made arrangements to begin I a campaign in furtherance of its deI mands throughout Canterbury.