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AUCTIONS. H. MATSON" AND CO. it. Sidney "Stork and St:, WOOL EXPORT. VALUE EXCEEDS £5.000,000. SUCCESS OF 10REJG.N" SHIPS. The export ol the new season's wool is Bow in full and competition among ■hipping companion is exceptionally keen. Eight liners are lisled to leave Sydney today for European port;; and the United Kingdor ' '"" '""'" L -'- --'---■ at approximately i'l,jl-,GOO. Tni-lii'ling to day's shipm.Mits, the wool ibipped lrom New Smith Wules this season to Europe nrd England amounts to about 819,6J0 bales, worth more than 13,271,000. Apart from the Aller and Teneriffn. the biggest shipments to date as as follows: — Altona (German-Australia line), 15,834 hales; Tricolor (Norwegian-Australia line), 12.580 bales; Ville d'Amicns (Messageries Alarilimes), 11,130 bales; and the City of Bristol (Ellerman, Bucknall line), 11,010 bales. ORDERS FOR 'WOOLPACKS, CORNSACKS, AND STATION REQUISITES PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO H. MATSON and CO. Extract from "Mercantile Gazette," Nov. 1927. THE AMENDED INDUSTRIAL . CONCILIATION ARBITRATION ACT. The Government has decided that the Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation Act ■ball continue as an integral part of our legislation, but it is to be altered, pushed in her* and squeezed out there, in order to meet gome of the objections hurled against it. If the Court' decide, as a condition precedent to making an award, that our employers would be economically incapable of paying the wages demanded and were empowered to refuse an application which, if granted, would increase the burden upon a struggling industry, one great objection to its continued existence would be removed. We have not yet received a copy of the amendments the Government propose shall bo made to the Act, but whatever they may be, while the present system of payment by time, instead of by results continues, and the principle of preference to unionists remains, no improvement will result from the patching intended by the Government, nor will our unemployed disappear from the face of the land. In the past the awards of the Court with regard to unskilled labour have simply created a class for whom no work can be found, except by the community borrowing large sums of money and spending it for the benefit of the workless upon all Borts of unnecessary and relief undertakings. If Mr Coates, however, thinks our system of dealing with labour is better than any other, he has the right and the -power to perpetuate it, and should the majority of the people interested decide that they cannot agree with him there is a perfectly constitutional method by which they may express their opinions later MANDRES, BONEDUST. AND LIME, ALL BRANDS PROCURABLE PROM H. MATSON and CO.

on. There are, naturally, two sides to every political question. We have no donbt that the Arbitration Act is slowly but surely destroying the prosperity o£ New Zealand, and if it were abolished the trade unions are well able to take care of their members. Mr Bloodworth, of Auckland, who is one of the ablest representatives the Labour movement has produced, is of opinion that Labour would be in a much better and stronger position if the Arbitration Court ceased to function, and we agree with his opinion, as the Court alone now exercises jurisdiction over wages, which is one of the most important matters which should engage the attention of the Unions. Most people will perhaps feply that the workers have gained more, pecuniarily, through the Oourt than the Unions could have obtained for thorn, as it has been the practice of tho Court to grant an automatic increase whenever index numbers have advanced since the last award. It is possible that all which has been given by the Court could have been obtained, or even more, had the leaden of the Unions met the employers in conference direct, freed from the presence of any official conciliators, as the employers would have been amenable to every reasonable demand in order to avoid the possibility of a strike. Thoso who personally gain by the Act, of course, do not want any alteration; those who pay out their capital to meet the awards are equally desirous to get rid of it. If it is true that the awards of the Court paralyse industry and create unemployment, the position becomes, as the Hon. Minister for Public Works put it the other day, that the State must come to the rescue by providing relief works, the money for FOR BEST PRICES SEND TOUR SHEEPSKINS. TALLOW, HIDES, OR CRUTCHINGS TO "JIATSON'S."

which must be found by borrowing. The Minister deprecated this possibility and intimated that workers should not bo employed upon Government public undertakings except during a crisis and as a temporary moa■ure only, but should be absorbed by the ordinary industries of the country, carried on at the expense of private capital. We think the Minister's remarks were statesmanlike and indicate that ho grasped the economic position with great accuracy, but as an independent and arbitrary tribunal now fixes rates which private persons cannot pay, wc are in a vicious spiral, wages and commodities, high rates and unemployment all purcuing one another. We do not think that the Act, even if amended in the direction suggested by the Government, will give any more satisfaction than it has in the past. If a ship has a hole in her hull, no one could make her seaworthy by scraping her topmasts, and a business financial scheme if started on unround principles will come to grief notwithstanding all the efforts of those who are called upon to engage in its administration. The Act fins against principles, as it constitutes an attempt to counter the effect of economic laws, and when amended it will avail nothing DIRECT- SUPERVISION'. EXPERT KNOWLEDGE, AND THE INTENSE DESIRE , TO GET THE BEST RESULTS AND TO KNOW THAT OUR BUSINESS DEPENDS OX THE SERVICES WE RENDER YOU. ENTRUST YOUR SELLING FAVOURS TO H. MATSON and CO. if the fundamental base upon which it rests remains unsound. We understand from the forecast of the proposed amendments that the Arbitration Court's awards are not in future to affect the farming community. If that is ■o a great step forward will be made, and 'we •uppose, in order to effect this object the Government will, by Statute, cancel the threshing mills employees' award and that of the shearers. That must be the logical Terif.V ,il / alW u ays becn an anachronism that the farmer has been compelled to pav the men who thresh his oats the same price whether the market price of his crop is Is fixed in relation to the price then current, which next season drops to one-half, some relie. »nould be g,Ten. However, it is plea"n* E lilt W . h, i the G °™rnment intends doEi.. til «»«.»>>«> m« in the primary indus¥h« iu „ "?,' P» u P« i "d by legislation. Shn„, ? <»«"»<"» "• how are the claims of «a«r h.. be rMonci ' ed «A« Government «r fnj- h ,n award * hich Ena " directly Ld«,^ ee, L y ,r^ judi<>ia,ly affeft the f "ming industry. , hsU be ipso fae , 0i nnH an(J H. MATSON* and CO., Christchurca.