Labor Legislation.
AN ADVERSE OPINION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, last night. Mr Theomin, the President, addressing the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, in referring to labor legislation now before Parliament, said it was very questionable if public opinion is not a more efficient and lasting curative than legislation, which may possibly create far greater and more intolerable evils than the abuses intended to be overcome. These measures would bo fully welcomed by Socialistic reformers, but thoughtful men Mould ask, Can legislation override the laws of supply and demand, and mako fruitful the barren places of the earth ? Concerning conciliation and arbitration, he regrets being forced to the conclusion that the colony will eventually suffer, not from the Bill itself, but from its umviso use, and almost incessant interference with working hours and wages. He says there is a great similarity between ti’ie condition of affairs under the Act and the rules of Donnybrook Fair. An injured pate can be plastered up, but ill-feeling and distrust engendered in the minds o? men were not so easily overcome. Antagonism once started is difficult to be checked.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 174, 3 August 1901, Page 2
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