THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 17

THE ARBITRATION COURT.

10 Tint EDITOB 0* IBM FRBSS. Sir,—ln my letter, published in yours of the 17th inst., I made a slip I wish to correct. The statement reads: "The Court stands condemned because it can only act for a section of the community, and that section has to bear practically all the added costs to the sheltered industries." I should have written, "The other section, the primary producers, has to bear practically the added costs of the sheltered industries." Also, I should like to point out, when the Arbitration Court was first set up, the National Debt was in the vicinity of forty mililons; and for that money there was more mileage of railways laid down, and more miles of traffic roads, formed and metalled, than the Dominion can show for the added 230 millions of National Debt to-day. It was stated on the floor of the House quite recently that the debt to-day is in the vicinity of two hundred and eighty millions. It is beyond doubt the ArbitralHon Court must be held responsible for such excessive costs as far as labour is concerned. One of the Cabinet Ministers recently said, "Our credit is high today," so also is our debt.—Yours, etc., A.B.