MR JUSTICE SIM CRITICISED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10172, 23 February 1911, Page 5

MR JUSTICE SIM CRITICISED.

By Telegram— -rrm Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Strong comment upon the President of the Arbitration .Court (Mr Justice Sim) was made to-night by Mr W. T: Young, secretary of the Wellington Branch of the Seamen's Unions at a presentation to Mr E. Tregear. In briefly tracing the history of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, Mr Young stated that, until 1905, the workers still retained the right to strike, if they did not accept the Court's award. "But since that right has been;taken away," continued Mr Young, !'the Court lias turned a ' somersault,, and it seems almost a .sneer impossibility to-day ;■ to ; get anything from ifche Arbitration Oourt but mere unmitigated insult from a gentleman occupying . the highest position in that Court, and who should exercise much more dignity than he has exercised; during . the past five or six months with regard to disputes,poming" "before' him." lb was suggested during Mr Tregear's speech later in the evening that he should comment upon the position, but her did not respond to this invitation. .