ARBITRATION ACT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 8

ARBITRATION ACT.

. THE AMENmNo EVIDENCE BE^ EcOMMm \ <"«« «socu, lo , WELLINGTON v L ' The taking of Industrial Conditio* ActA m en«3mentßm bc ,'^ b, J««ii mcutary Labour Bill, <££**. begun to-day. , "• *»r J. Robinson, of Lumping 48 unions with a ■II,OOO, under that he knew the "5 had prevented men from ward as arbitrators, eTthR? * mou a Would not be ibtilwrt posed constitution of th?L>£* give Judges an ** awards. Piece-work 0 f toX { S*Ht in the Bill would strC* !*'< of trade unionism. pLJLX£»foi for carelessness and gerous occupations. * * fcjs* To the Hon. Mr Anderson. 'JfrV dec ared that his statenUuStSjr could break awards was SMfc Judge and two awarded a Judge .^Jjjßg The Minister said that it was only in eases where aeM* were introduced. am *W^ In reply t 0 a question as to wtaL a worker who did hi ß beet S»S% l>e pa!d more than tho ttaVivrf not, witness said .an employer wSffl miss an indifferent aan. Giving evidence on behalf ofj£e> factory employees, T. O'BwAm Southland, said that protection afforded by ffr ZKgk the Bill were carriedl they Silk back to the dark ages, uAworiUFV a dozen men applying for one mSb? 1 >' The Act waa their sheet aaeheftf ' would be practically clause 16 for agi cements to l*iS> between employer and emploseesWr Tho representative of the S&ffif' Dairy Workers' Union ditions under which data- *iw* earned their living. There some limitation of hours, and the union in his harmoniously. To bring would be to bring in strike* tijygfr absent, break dbwn the ind^ttrr'M 1 ' cause a fallittg-off in quality, m of the mon was that if thtVJjjjfgL out of the Act, wageß WonlJ«lftfiA' the good team work now good, well-paid men wouldnjflfiffAi E. Fulton, representing ttrimffinj? dairy workers, said the BiraifHJttV the interests of neither Wmmiwfarmers. He quoted from<thlllto? sheets of soven' factories'' general reduction in the Suction per pound since the eoMfigatb' operation of the ArbHriUmterlf awards. ■ , *. ')^sh^<i.