CONCILIATION BOARD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9176, 20 June 1908, Page 2

CONCILIATION BOARD.

• Per Press Association Napier, June-19 : r A deputation fromi .Painters’ Union of Workers waited v / upon the Hon. J.- A. Millar evening and complained . that t|ie recommendations filed- in ...the ,dis . pute between them . and- the . emr ployers differed. in ' many respects from the settlement arrived .at .when the parties conferred in, Napier, last month, . ‘h / •! The Minister,?!!! repiyy .-.said,. that if the deputation N-Saiq --.there was likely to be a fatal mistake 'with re■gard to the agreement come to, he would consider it his ,duty t.o draw tne attention of the chairman of .'the Conciliation Board, to.•■■ the, fact. Under the circnmsfcapeea, the Conoiliatiqd' :v ßo»td ,r.n'eeff, not have been approached ;at : --alh .-The.agreement between -the employers and the workers could lia.ve; been sent direct to the Arbitration Opurt and become an award.; - This was another case in support .of. what he had been striving- for, namely, the. formation c of ; industrial councils, where employers’’ arid, ■ epaployees could d i sou salt heirdiffererices', without the interference of ; anyone - else, Of coarse there w ould.'> be disagreemeats which would ham; to hriv-re-ferred to a court to settle, ;brit.\ there would be no necessity Afor the existence of liraotieslly; two * Courts j • a lower and a, higher on&i/;as- at present. '