AMENDMENT DESIRED

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 8

AMENDMENT DESIRED

CITT MEN AND THE LABOUR LEGISLATION. Some aspects of reosnt industrial disagreements in Wellington have been brought before the local Chamber of Commerce, and yesterday the council of tho Chamber passed a series of resolutions'bearing on the matter as follows:— "That it is desirable that tho Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 100S, bo amended this session to provide.: "(1) That notice be given by sufficient advertising or personally to employers or employees in any industry in connection with which any application is made for registration of any industrial association or union of such application. "(2) That opportunity should be given for employer, or employees, in any such industry to oppose the registration of such proposed industrial association ov union. "(3) That there should bo tho right of appeal from the decision of the Registrar, upon such matters, to tho Arbitration Court." • It is maintained, for instance, that in tho case of the warehousemen's application for an incrcaso ia wages, that only a certain proportion, and not the bulk of the hands, are concerned in tho demands.