E Seer SIDNEY AND ISUANDS REVIEW AND: SAANICH GAZETTE, THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER 20, 1919

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Legal Decisions

Affecting Labor

A contractor employed a number
of workmen on a eertain job and in-
structed one of them who had had
more experience than the others, put
who received the same pay, to su-
pervise and direct his companions.
Later on the employer brought suit
against this workman for.$320, of
which sum $165 was for damages on
account of the performance of use-
less work under the direction of the
defendant, and $105 for an amount
which he had wrongfully paid to a
merchant for goods that had never
been delivered. The Superior Court
of Quebec rejected the claim, holding
the defendant in no way responsibie.
Qn an appeal to the Court of Revis-
ion, the judgment owas modified.
With respect to the useless work al-
lezed to have been performed, it- was
held that the defnedant was not a
foreman of the plaintiff. and conse-
quently he was not responsible; but
with regard to the payment for the
undelivered goods, it was held that
the defendant had been commissioned
by the* plaintiff to purchase and pay
for these goods, and that he should
not have paid for. them when he
found that they had not deen sup-
plied. For these reasons the de-
fendant was condemned to pay $105
With interest—(Quebec—Renaud vs.
Bernier.)

Jarisdiction of B. €. Workmen’s
Compensation Board.

Judzment was delivered recently
by the Judicial Committee of tne
Imperial Privy Couneil in the matter
of an appeal by the British Colum-
bia Workmen’s Compensation Board
against a decision of the Supreme
Court of British Columbia in a test
case with regard to the payment of
claims to relatives of members of tie
crew of the Princess Sophia, whicno
Was wrecked off the coast of Alaska
in October, 1919. It was held by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Compan=
that the British Columbia Work
men’s Compensation Act was ultra
vires in that (1) it fixed a greater

liability than was allowed by the
Imperial Shipping Act; (2) shipping
Was within the -exelusive jurisdiction
lof the federal government, and (3)
it purported to legislate in regard
to. an accident outside the province.

Shipping Act only limits | liability,
when a ship is lost through negli-
gence, that the federal government
has only jurisdiction over shippins
within Canada, and that the British
Columbia Workmen’s Compensation
Act was in reality a form of insur-
ance and consequently must extend
to residents of the province whether
injured within its boundaries or not.

The Privy Council gave judgment
in favor af the Workmen’s Compens-
ation Board, reversing the decision
of the Supreme Court of British Co-
lumbia.

In order to ayoid hardship the
railway company had agreed to the
continuance of the payment of the
award to the beneficiaries y . the
Gompensation Board during the liti-
gation. (British Columbia—Cana-
dian Pacific Railway Company vs.
Workmen’s Compensation Board of
| British Columbia.)

STRONG,

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\ SHARK LEATHER

The Board claimed that the Merehant }

Manasing-the.
World

This.is mot an articla on errand

boys or telegraph messengers. It 5

agement to the man who feels that.
he is specially qualified: for running

ing with the rest of the public, I con-
sider myself practically a member of
the family.

My heart goes out today to the
noisy orator,in the Park, or on a soap
box at the sereet corner, who, though
he may not Know when ft is about
time to wear a clean collar, is satis-
fied that if the government of the
country were handed over to him to-
morrow we should all be wallowing
in riches and contentment the day
after.

I suppose everybody knows some-
bedy who, if he had been given a free
hand, could lave preyented the war,

‘land would have been pleased to do

The Bureau of Fisheries; United
States Department of Commerce, re-

ning fish skins has established a sta-
tion in North Carolina and another
in Florida for the capture of sharks
and porpoises, and is mesting with
success in its fishery for sharks. It
is understood that the number of sta-—
tions will be increased as rapidly as
pessible. Another company has re-
cently acquired a site for a tannery

hides of sharks, beluga, hair
ete.

Samples of leather recently sub-
{mitted show marked improvement in
| appearance over earlier samples. The
leather is seft and pliable and ap-
pears to have ample strength
many uses. \

The nets which the bureau
veloped for the capture of sharks are
proving successful and are being

seals,

tracted.

ports excellent progress in the tan-_

in Washington which plans to tan the-

it free of charge. Yet the man of
this kind that I knew never received
an invitation to join the government,
but still is engaged in the industry
| (more or less) .of a jobbing plumber.
| {do not claim that I was ever in

a positien to prevent the war happen- |

ing. but I had a scheme that would
have ended hostilities in the first
week if it had been adopted by those
who were stage-managine the con-
cern. Like all great ideas, mine was
Simplicity itself. All I asked the
sovernment to do was to freeze the
North Sea into a solid block of ice.
| The first effect of this would have
been to crush all the hostile subma-
‘rines to pulp.

The Germans, of course, would
have looked at the great stretch of

for ice and said, “Ha, ha!” or its gut- business, because all they gaye him

tural equivalent, and would at once

de-|bave started to invade England byj|and a fortnight’s holiday.
(1 understand that there is a

i land.
| difference ef epinion as to whether

adopted for the fishery. At the fish-| you call ice land or not, so that I -of us aching to-set it on its
ery station the liver oil is being ex= |

will not insist on this detail.)
the great point is, that as soon asthe

| Germans had got two or three mill-

just a word of sympathy and encour-:

the earth,.,And as I-share that feet.

ion men on the ice, with guns and
equipment, and the usual soeks for
the soldiers, all we should have hac
fo do would have been to thaw the
yee and then send a note to Berlin
to inform Germany that she had lost
the war and that a remittance would
oblige. It is now, unfortunately, a

ment did not adopt my scheme.

is talking:-about reconstruction, and
consequently those of us—that is to
say, all of us—-who are specially
qualified to ran things, will have to}
get busy. I have a sound practical:
scheme for producing universal hap-|
piness in the immediate future, but:
I expect I shall be ignored as usual.
When the rationing system was in-
troduced into;this country my gro-
cer told me in confidence that if he|
were Focd Gontroller we should all
have more to eat. than we wanted.
And as he didn't look like a man who
ever went short of anything himself, |
he must have known what he
talking about. But instead of being

|
But

a Cabinet Minister he is still a gro-
cer, and still has to condyet snappish
arguments with irritating old ladies
as to why he charges a penny more
for margarine tham the grocer at
the other end of the street.

There is an idea abroad that some
| of us would do better if we gave up
itrying to run things and tried to. run.
,Ourselvyes instéad. But it is much
easier to tell your neighbor what he
;Ought to do than to do what you
, Ought to do vourself -
| I met an elderly gentleman im the
; train the other morning who told.me
.that if his advice were taken we could
| pay off the National-Debt in about a
| fortnight. He knew just what kind
»of education the schools ought-to sup-
|ply, how to settle the Irish question,
|}and what to do till the doctor comes.
| And then he went on to tell me that
he was a clerk in a bank, the direc-
,tors of which did not know their

per annum was thres hundred pounds

It’s a topsy-turvy world, anyway,
-and it’s no WPEGEE there are so many
feet
again.—Arnold Golsworthy, in Tit-=
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