AN EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 513, 21 May 1909, Page 5

AN EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Tsß GUNqUiIA'WON ABBBOTCD. vwor wtion r ■■;■■'■' > .- (BT TELEGIUriI—SIUICIAL. UOKRIUPONpENM' Clirlatohuroh, May 20. . Tho ropart ,of the' Employers';. Association, tp, bp presented .on Tuesday night, '\p rpjcrenpp tp cor\cili.i|io J i\ n,nd 'to.; tip, At': • A^n^cnt!"''Act, passprt" ' 4 soss.ipri, pit. JanifyrTj: '\, tlii,ij year, '\is ppneyiatiorT \hp 'Sta,tu,to, ■ beeij' paly' rupntijs hi ~ pporation. Somo,' tiffowW f"? 1 ???™ fe v « '■ to lapse before any . decided opinion can J |)o oppressed as to tlio success or non-success . of tho uo\v,'oiperinio.nt, but" it niay'b'p 'said {.hat, gpnorafly .speakjiig,'. conciliation has , jnadd a fairly premising beginning. ,: . "Tho riwekincry by'tho, no,w; Act has not bcon"fo\(nd tp iyprls' smopthly, a,us.. sn"mp' : ara,epclmpM will up .',■ • Tho ciuof 4l!h,WJlw H t RW)i is tk of spnjp," proper, provision wlioypby , Jiicots, arrived a,tby the*p,ayvV?§ can, easily-, and speedily hp niado tntp| nerds' of 'Ilia' ' Vmi" \Vl\lte' H g?ao«ng" thiit, so . many, settlements have lately been arflypq : at without tho aid of tho Arbitration Court, ' ■ it cannot be tap, shonel/ \irgpd upon employers' that they should make" themselves , thoroughly coiyyottant with tho.labour conditions''in their.. iespcofivo trades "in other part's pf thp Hominion, befpro arriving at : Uny agreement, Jii"a number of casos,' cm-.'-j pioycrs... havo thoughtlessly conceded soi'tio j important; principle, which tho majority of .tl\pptto cmpjpy.ers, (uAVQ bepn \ftghiina .. strenuously A? c V?ry. concossjop pf, t'US' K WI &ct § «S », «,V9 Co ('r.nt iii Rtlw 4ift piitps, arp pjvvsl!? giro this matter then-, su-ipus pp.ndd.craiipn,, "Hitherto tho pinjijpjcrs liayp,.'as a'riilcy tolerated tho pfot'erouce , clause, and no ser ipus objection. \vas, niado agajnst it oo lo)ig qs thoy had a perfectly free'hand'in em. ploying tho best' worknlen, whelher union, ists or. uoHTUnionists, but, far. .some yours past, thp tr«do. unjpns have . been nickiii" a litpltj b)(\-to hayp. a poiflmilsqiy ■ p.vpflM'cilcp %? W™ ifl PVPfy H\yar((. Sv, r .h a : clau,sp huss been'agreed to by coir.u employers, thpugh protesting agairist any coin-: : pulsion being' brought iippn 6nml'6yprs'.\v}iicii would doprivo t-hplji of tljoir right in s.eloct the best' workmen available hft ' thcii' i'(i- ,' (piiromonts, and urging upon eycrv cmplovT ! " ti>. opposo\ prcfcrehcc to "unionists in .-in* ffltm. " What many.'of tho trado'iiniuns lioiidemand, is unconditional praforonco, and, if this is to be successfully losisted, onipVoyeis mast bo lmjuiinwini. <ppm«» ft 1)