INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1904, 12 November 1913, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

ITS WORK IN NRW SOUTH WALES, By Telegraph—Press Associations-Copyright (R«c, November 11, 8.30 p.m.) Sydney, November 11. Tho final Toport of the Royal Commissioner on Industrial Arbitration in Now South Wales urges tie necessity of tlio employment of men of tho highest judicial capacity in dealing ■ with Arbitration matters. The Commissioner makes various suggestions with a viewi to improving the • present methods of procedure. After mentioning that Arbitration is still iu tho experimental legislation stage—though' it has had twelve years' trial—lie adds that there is no doubt that the mental elumffo which lias been wrought in men who are constantly seeing and participating in judicial methods of investigation has ■ engendered > a distaste* and distrust of methods of trial by force, a Willingness to abandon.them, and abide by methods of reuson and law.

He declares further that the general sense of the public is against treating strike leaders its criminals. Howcfcr, disastrously for themselves _ mid for their fellows, arid however viciously Tor public interests they may have acted, tlioy conlii. as a rtilo, only in an academic or rhetorical sense, bo described as criminals.