CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 451, 9 March 1909, Page 4

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

THE POSITION AT AUCKLAND. AN ASSESSOR RESIGNS. (BY TELEOHArH—I'BESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, March 8. When tho Conciliation Council resumed this morning, Mr. Long, representing the hotel and restaurant employees, said ho was not prepared to offer any evidence. Mr. Giles stated that Mr. lladford, ono of tho assessors appointed by the union, had resigned his seat on tho council as a protest against Mr. Lorig's action in refusing to submit tlio dispute to the Conciliation Commissioners. Tho secretary of the union wrote that Mr. E. Keenan had been appointed to act in Mr. Rudford's stead. Proceedings wore further adjourned for . threo weeks. Mr. Radford, in forwarding his resignation to Mr. Harlo Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, enclosed a letter written to tho Restaurant Employees' Union, in which he stated that he had resigned his seat on tho council as a protest against tho position in which tho union had been placed before the public by Mr. Long in refusing to submit evidence to support tho union claim, seeing that the law provides for settlement of disputes by conciliation beforo taking them to the Arbitration Court. Ho considered the members of tho union wero not justified in allowing personal feeling to prevent them attempting to arrive at n friendly settlement. Ho concluded: "In flouting the council the union is playing against tho law of the land, and runs tho risk of losing tho support ot public opinion, which otherwise would be with them." , ' ;