INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9100, 20 March 1908, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

SECOND EDITION.

NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATION. Pres 1 ? Association—Copyright Received March 20, 10.58 a.ra. Sydney, March 20. Iu the Assembly Mr Wade in moving the second reading of the Industrial Disputes Bill said they could not rely on moral sentiment only if they ■waited the awards observed under all Circumstances by all parties. Employers generally had tangible assets to levy upon but in the case of employees it was different; therefore the Bill provided for the recovery of penalties not only from individuals, but from the Unions to whiclU| they belonged, unless it could be shown that the unions had honestly done their duty iu seeking to have the awards respected. He was not prepared to concede preference to unionists, but if the two sides agreed to preference they would bo well within their rights. Mr Beeby stated the case for the Opposition and declared that amendments to the New Zealand Act had gradually grown up for the encouragement of the formation of unions and provisions for collective bargaining had never been lost sight pOf. Legislation on the Now Zealand ' lines was desired iu Autsralia. The Opposition were prepared to accept the Bill if certain concessions were made. These included a Permaueut Industrial Court presided over by a Supreme Court Judge witli absolute and final jurisdiction; the maintenance of the present system of registration; the organsiatiou and encouragement of collective bargaining ; the extension cf the scope of the Bill to include all industrial disputes with power to ascertain and consider profits iu fixing wages and industrial conditions.