A NOVEL ARBITRATION PROVISION

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 2

A NOVEL ARBITRATION PROVISION

Tho Now South Wales Arbitration-Court" l - .* introduced; a decidedly ■ novel feature 'into" <•"-» < itS award, .deliver&'kou April '16," in tl}<s Sydney ;.bnckmakers^idispu]te..-/ ; Tfe...ay(^. t fi3?eii^'.. i, '' ; ri hours, wages, conditions,' etc.,- and-'then.-t> goes on to dircct-the appointment-of a .per-* .v" ,i manent committeo .of' six. r6pr©sentativis; H tho Employers' Union and six froin tliefinU- ■ » i ployees' Union. With the committee each 1 ' :i ;union has .to deposit .£200," and\ fund the committee has absolute control; j AH questions of breaches of tho award of- 4- v / of breaches of existing conditions-.not v ■: I covered by .'the award rare to be referred i to; the committee, ; and that body is given v absolute power to deal .with these-questions 1 5 and to assess- damages and expenses, which —- , aro to bo deducted from the fund'*and-paid ;: "/ J to tho aggrieved party. A committee simply ' . i to deal .with disputes as a kiud of concilia- | tion board .was appointed under ' theold , award, but the novelty' here' (says the Syd-.... ; ney " Herald") is the compulsory contribution t<) the fund and the investing of-the . ... ! committee with the powors of, a final f , . | tribunal. Mr. Croft, who appeared for the - . Employees 1 ' 1 Union in the dispute, , states . that ' . ' -i it is considered by. both unions that .a largo J amount: of friction'will, be overcome by. this •. .--J new.; method./ and. that /difficulties ;will bo*. settled as between man: and ■ man without - ( the intervention of the legal element, . Thus ■ j it is hoped to preserve the peace of the industry for the term of tho award, which, • 1 by tho way,'is. the longest ever granted by .. the Court, viz., . till-l£rcli 31, 1912.■ ".If : this award had been given before the introduction of the now .Bill,"; said tho secretary w : 1 of the Employees'.'Union,- "it- would hav.o, r - « given -the Government ; a lead asi to: what- . - j legislation is, really- required " ,

, . 1 .... v... I,a . , -■ ~.yj /It is, striking that ; itis-exclusively- tlm ■,! Gorman Fleet which has 1 caused 1 anxieties, m - ■ England. There, is a certain amount of^mi-J friendliness 'in the fact /that the Gorman - .'."'l Floet is especially singled out and Credited•»'-? with inimical lntentionsv'—"" KbolniscKe "•.-•i Zoituug," Cologne. <'/J