ARBITRATION CANCELLATION.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 September 1911, Page 13

ARBITRATION CANCELLATION.

A ballot of members of the Auckland Tramways' Union was taken on the proposal to cancel the registration of the Union under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The result was in favour of cancellation by 284 votes to 63. Application will now Dβ made in the prescribed form to have the registration of the union cancelled. A petition praying for separation from the New Zealand Tramways' Federation was also submitted to the men, and 295 signatures were recorded in favour of the proposed step. Speaking on the matter, an official of the Tramways' Union remarked that the men's decision was in every way satisfactory. They had been told by the president of the Arbitration Court that they had reached "high water mark as far as wages were concerned, and the men realised that they had nothing further to expect from the Court. It was a significant fact that all advances in wages had so far been received by agreement with the employer, and not through the Court. Having cast oft the trammels .of the Court, they still had the privilege of meeting their employers and exhausting all conciliatory means before resorting to sterner methods, such as a strike. The Auckland Tramways Union a couple of ago decided, "by a majority of 15 to 1, to join tho N.Z.F.L.