CAPITAL AND LABOR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 March 1916, Page 2

CAPITAL AND LABOR

GOOD KEELIXG EXISTING. V lEW.S Of-' COXOILiATIOX COM- _ MISSJ.OXER. the C'oiicilatioii Commissioner (Mr T. Uatle Giios) has returned to Auc'kl*iml twin Gisborne, ami the disiputes that lie Hill have to hear there will include those oi the Auckland ironmongers and Auckland saddlers and harness makers, and the Odiinemuri mines and bateriis employees. jlho latter takes in the workers in the W ivihi and Grand Junction mines and other mines in the O'liinennii'i district. It is twelve months since the (Jom-lnis.-ioiiei' lias been in uisborne, and speaking to a G'i.sborne Tunes - reporter he said thai: lie noticed great progress m Gisoornc. KacJi visit he TTnTdo hero seemed to impress him with . the gO- - policy that was being pursued on all s.ides. There was a narked aawuico 111 the ijnil<Tiijijr operations sine© lie \\ a«_ last here, and everyone eeeme; eoiihdent of t-Jxo great future betore tins town. Referring to Anckiai" he sa.id tlrat industry was 'ffffWy brisK there. The real reason why there was 110 surplus labour was because so many good men had gone to the trout, and there was enough work to keep tae available labour going. The Commissioner referred to the fact that never 111 any one year during the seven that he had occupied the >>.jvtion oi Coneilfa,tion Comim.ssioner hatt lie sent so many uiisettV-d cises to uic Court of Arbitration as he had done 'hiring tlie past year. Asked as to what was the reason lor .so many eases being unsettled, the Commissioner said that no doubt- thwar had some effect. The uneeHamty as to the future was undoubtedly •s<»ne cause. The decision of the Ariination Court in the large number ol disputes that it had had to deal with would no doubt strengthen or weaken the good feeling that is existing now between capital and 'abor