Mr.Russell says:-- "The thing is a failure, greatly to the surprise of many capable observers, and yet just such a result might have been expected from the beginning, and for two perfectly obvious reasons, both of which, strange to say, were universally overlooked.
"In the first place, the court was nominally composed of three persons, and really of one.

That one was the judge appointed by the government.
"The representative of the employers voted every time for the employers; the representative of the unions voted every time for the unions; the judge alone decided, and might as well have constituted the whole court.
"At first the judge decided most of the cases in favor of the policy of increasing wages.

Fine, again.

Many wage scales ascended.
"But the judge, as a rule, did not like his job.

He desired to get to the Supreme Court as rapidly as possible; to the Supreme Court where the honors were.