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On Monday night the Minister of Labour announced that he

had appointed a Court of Inquiry under Part 2 of the Industrial Courts Act of 1919, to inquire into the causes and circumstances of the dispute and to report thereon. The Court consists of Mr. Holman Gregory, K.C. (Chairman), Mr. H. Boothman, and Sir Andrew Duncan. The Court is not exactly comparable with the Committee of 1920, which was presided over by Lord Shaw and which produced what was called " The Dockers' Charter." for the Shaw Committee was agreed to in advance by both sides, and the present Court is not. The Minister of Labour has simply acted on his own responsibility. Besides setting up this Court he has kept in direct touch with the antagonists.

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