ARBITRATION ACT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3660, 2 July 1927, Page 3

ARBITRATION ACT.

AMENDING LEGISLATION. The amendment- to the I.C. and A. Act which is to ho introduced this session is causing a good deal of speculation and discussion both inside and outside of the House. Although no official hint lias yet been dropped on the subject, there is, ground for the belief that the essence of the measure may be a provision for payment by result and piece work. It may be found also that the Bill will aim at an extension of the conciliation principle. For instance, in the case of an industrial dispute an authority, such as an appeal board, consisting of representatives of the employers and employees engaged in the industry affected, would be established, and wages would be fixed, not on the basis of the cost of living, but more on the ability of the industry concerned to pay the wage, cognisance at the same time being taken of the industrial conditions of the country. It seems possible that the Bill will not provide for abolition of the preference to unionists clause, but when it readies the committee stage amendments to cover that omission will not be lacking. The 'chairman and secretary of the Auckland Football Association indignantly deny the Wellington chairman’s statement that when in the north he saw Aucklanders provide whisky for their men. The secretary states there is no drinking on the field except where brandy is ordered by the ambulance for injured men. The club secretaries also deny the charges.